Accidently, I found the proper documentation on CVS, answering all my questions, in the section of this site for developers. The installation instructions should include at least some of that or there should be a reference to go to CVS info for developers. As a site admin, I did not venture to developer area looking for such info.
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is mysqladmin install possible via CVS
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