Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:29:20 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Touch Message-ID: <200702021829.l12ITKHO019825@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> of "Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:36:00 PST." <200702020936.00901.kstewart@owt.com>
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In message <200702020936.00901.kstewart@owt.com>, Kent Stewart writes: > On Friday 02 February 2007 07:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > Cy Schubert wrote: > > > What is a CVSup "Touch"? What is it? (A touch, right?) Why does it > > > happen? What triggers it? > > > > > > e.g. > > > Touch ports/devel/makeplus/files/patch-main.mk,v > > > Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-descr,v > > > Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-plist,v > > > > > > I have a CVSup that's been running here for 15 minutes touching > > > every ,v file in ports. It still has not competed. > > > > Could we see your supfile? Looks as if CVSup is, err, "barking up > > the wrong tree"? > > I suspect that it is part of decoupling FreeBSD-4.x from the port tree. That's what I suspect. I think that the files were either updated or touched to make sure that the whole tree was propagated the next time people did a CVSup of the tree itself. It's not a big deal, it the first time I've noticed CVSup do that as I usually just look at the exit status of my cron job and go onto the next email. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org e**(i*pi)+1=0
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