On 2025/04/06 10:17, Sylvain Saboua wrote:
>  $ doas mkdir www && doas chgrp wsrc www && doas chmod 775 www 
>  $ doas cvs -qd anoncvs@anoncvs.comstyle.com:/cvs checkout -rOPENBSD_7_6 -P www

the www tree is not tagged, don't use -rOPENBSD_7_6.

>  $ ls -l
> total 76
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root   wheel   512 Sep 27  2024 X11R6
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   wheel  6144 Apr  6 08:22 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   wheel  1024 Oct 17 08:15 games
> drwxr-xr-x  31 root   bin    3072 Oct 17 08:15 include
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root   wheel  3584 Apr  6 08:22 lib
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root   wheel   512 Oct 17 08:15 libdata
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root   wheel  1024 Apr  6 08:22 libexec
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root   wheel   512 Sep 27  2024 local
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   wheel   512 Sep 30  2024 mdec
> drwxrwx---   2 build  wobj    512 Oct 17 08:14 obj
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   wheel  4096 Apr  6 08:22 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root   wheel   512 Sep 30  2024 share
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root   wsrc    512 Oct 17 08:14 src
> drwxrwx---   2 build  wobj    512 Oct 17 08:15 xobj

> Why no new www folder ? /usr/src is also still enpty.

-P prunes empty dirs, a www checkout with -rOPENBSD_7_6 is empty.

> Before this last attempt I managed to populate the folder 
> with Entries, Root, Repository, Tag files, but without 
> any html file in sight and not even that any more.
> 
>  $ more /home/sylvain/.cvsrc  
> # $OpenBSD: dot.cvsrc,v 1.3 2016/10/31 20:50:11 tb Exp $
> #
> diff -uNp
> update -Pd
> checkout -P
> rdiff -u

you're running cvs as root so your user cvsrc is probably not used.
also, running cvs as root is very much not recommended.