Thanks for the replies.
So regardless of the finer points of the automatic checkout or any proposed move to Git at the moment it looks as if the procedure has failed for 5.6.0 and given that it was release back in June it doesn't look like a fix is coming any time soon.
So I have to use 5.5.0 or checkout the 5.5.0 packages manually from cvs and apply them locally?
Steve
