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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:16:10 +0100
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc:        John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net>
Subject:   Re: CVS filling /tmp (was Re: FreeBSD CVS Question (answered!))
Message-ID:  <20040114111610.GM39353@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040114120728.V13656@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:09:32PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> 
> SH>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:44:46AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> SH>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:55:41 +0100
> SH>> Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> wrote:
> SH>>
> SH>> [cvs over rsh/ssh]
> SH>> > I have seen this too, and sometimes this has prevented me from checking
> SH>> > out RELENG_4 or some such from a machine with a swap backed /tmp. Is
> SH>> > there *any* workaround other than using cvsup? Is there a logical
> SH>> > explanation for this or is it just an unfixed bug in CVS?
> SH>>
> SH>> Use NFS to mount the repository on the machine you want to checkout on.
> SH>
> SH>Yes, that was what I did eventually. I was hoping that I was just missing
> SH>something, but obviously I'm not. Thanks for the pointer though.
> 
> I missed the start of this thread, but re-directing the remote CVS temp
> directory would probably help:
> 
> CVS_SERVER="cvs -T /var/tmp" cvs ....
> 
> This helps also with remote read-only repository because cvs does not push
> the -R flag to the remote CVS:
> 
> CVS_SERVER="cvs -R" cvs ...

Hey, great! That was another annoyance that I didn't figure out. Thanks!

--Stijn

-- 
"Coca-Cola is solely responsible for ensuring that people - too stupid to know
not to tip half-ton machines on themselves - are safe. Forget parenting - the
blame is entirely on the corporation for designing machines that look so
innocent and yet are so deadly."
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