From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 23 16:41:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA05161 for current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05124 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13290; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609232340.QAA13290@austin.polstra.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: possible vm kernel death In-reply-to: <199609180930.TAA05519@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:40:45 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: > > So I'd wait a bit for John to catch the latest bugs, or go install > > a system from before sep 7 (I think)... > > Hmm, not really an option. 8( I don't have the CVS repository here > (I'm stupid, I know 8( ), and I need to get this box to a state better > than it has been (960612-SNAP) before its regular user gets back and > needs it again. I've been mostly away from my mail for a few days, so this probably is too late to do any good, but ... The kind of situation you described is a good application for CVSup's "checkout mode". You could specify any date, and CVSup would update (downdate? :-) your sources back to that point in time. It would go pretty fast, because only the diffs would be transferred. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth