From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 15: 5:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD5937B404 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D400443E77 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b226.otenet.gr [212.205.244.234]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g98M5Tc0022827; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 01:05:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g98LiU2I085187; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:44:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g98LiUWE085186; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:44:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:44:29 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Adam Weinberger Cc: Martin McCormick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safe Use of cvsup Message-ID: <20021008214429.GE83241@hades.hell.gr> References: <200210081920.g98JKBw58996@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <20021008193949.GB81796@vectors.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021008193949.GB81796@vectors.cx> X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-08 12:39, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> (10.08.2002 @ 1220 PST): Martin McCormick said, in 0.8K: << > > If one uses an incorrect tag in cvsup, it tends to > > destroy the /usr/src tree, a sort of make zapworld. Would there > > be anything wrong with backing up the /usr/src directory to a tar > > file before running cvsup so that if the worst happens, one can > > restore the directory to what it was before the mishap? > > if you toast the /usr/src directory by a bad tag in the cvsup file, > putting in the correct tag and rerunning cvsup will correct the problem. > i don't see much use in backing up something that is available from any > number of readily available sites. It might be a little faster to simply extract a tarball, if one has enough space to keep a backup copy locally :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message