freebsd stable - Sep 2011 - Problems with cvs from cvs-repository

I see that a lot of RELENG_9 tags have been created in the last day or 
so.  So I thought I would get the sources in the following manner:

I downloaded the complete cvs repository using cvsup.  Then I ran the 
commands
env CVSROOT=/whereever-it-is/cvs cvs co -rRELENG_9 src
and nothing happened except the directory src was created.

However if I try cvsup with RELENG_9, it works just fine.

Is this something to do with svn to cvs conversion, and somehow 
something isn't set quite right?  Or did I completely mess up the commands?

On 09/24/2011 03:08 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I see that a lot of RELENG_9 tags have been created in the last day or
> so. So I thought I would get the sources in the following manner:
>
> I downloaded the complete cvs repository using cvsup. Then I ran the
> commands
> env CVSROOT=/whereever-it-is/cvs cvs co -rRELENG_9 src
> and nothing happened except the directory src was created.
>
> However if I try cvsup with RELENG_9, it works just fine.
>
> Is this something to do with svn to cvs conversion, and somehow
> something isn't set quite right? Or did I completely mess up the
commands?

Please completely ignore this message.  I was simply impatient and 
didn't let the command run for long enough to do anything.  Sorry for 
the noise.