Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:59:27 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? Message-ID: <199709260329.MAA00428@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:47:44 GMT." <199709252147.OAA01744@usr04.primenet.com>
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> > You don't. Due to the nature of the distributed CVS repository, there > > is a window where even the exact time of checkout for the snapshot > > build might leave you out of sync. The only way around this would be > > for the snap to be built from a tree directly checked out from the > > master repository. Jordan does this for the for-CDROM versions, I > > think. > > This is not due to the nature of the CVS repository; this is due to the > way it is being used. We've had the discussion about "how to use it > to close the window" before. Enforcing reader/writer locks by making > the repository group writable and the locking program SGID the caller > into the group would fix the problem, pronto. No, it wouldn't. Closer would be to claim the "checkout" time for a remotely-built SNAP matched the CVSup scan from which the remote repo was last updated, but unfortunately there isn't any such thing. mike
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