Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:28:05 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, Gunther Hipper <gunther@informatik.uni-rostock.de>, vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) Subject: Re: smp cvs tree was deleted after last cvsup session Message-ID: <199704221928.NAA17034@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:05:26 PDT." <199704221905.MAA05601@austin.polstra.com>
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Hi, > Sorry, it has already been fixed. There was a brief window on the > new freefall when /home/smp was empty, causing CVSup to make yours > empty too. I didn't realize it at first -- I checked that the > directories were there, but didn't see that they were empty. > Unfortunately, a couple of the mirrors also picked up the changes. > I'm sorry for the inconvenience. > > If you want to test it safely before you decide whether you trust it > again, specify a destination directory after the supfile, as > described in the cvsup manual page. looks like its OK now, I first tested both freefall and cvsup against my (copy of) existing cvssmp tree. in both cases cvsup completed without adding any files (expected as I was already in sync) and the tree was uncorrupted. I then made an empty directory and tried it on cvsup, it completed without any apparent error. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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