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From: "Dima Ruban" <dima@burka.rdy.com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:56:43 -0800
In-Reply-To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
        "Re: SUP of current weird" (Dec 15,  1:04pm)
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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, ernie@spooky.eis.net.au
Subject: Re: SUP of current weird
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On Dec 15,  1:04pm, John Polstra wrote:
> Subject: Re: SUP of current weird
> In article <199612142219.IAA10425@spooky.eis.net.au> you write:
> > I noticed over the last few days that there have been a few minor bugs that
> > stop a make world in -current so I simply run sup again to get the latest
> > fixed the next day. However every time I run sup it seems to want to
> > retreive most of the contrib directory again which is wastefull.
> >
> > Has there been major patches every day of the last week to the contrib dir
> > that forces sup to download it again? Or is there something odd going on?
>
> There have been very few commits to contrib lately.  There is something
> odd going on.
>
> > It only seems to be the contrib dir the other just update changed files as
> > normal.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Your supfile line looks fine.  I looked around a bit on sup.freebsd.org.
> The problem appears to be a bug in cvs-1.6.3, which is the version used
> there.
>
> Periodically (every day, I suppose) the source tree there is updated
> with "cvs update -APd".  For some reason, this is causing the
> modtimes of the contrib files to be updated, even though the files
> haven't changed.  (2554 files under contrib on sup.freebsd.org have
> been touched in the past 24 hours.)
>
> I tried some experiments on two machines here, one running cvs-1.6.3,
> and the other running cvs-1.8.1.  Both times, I did this:
>
>     cvs checkout contrib_libpcap
>     cd contrib_libpcap
>     ls -lt
>     cvs update -APd
>     ls -lt
>
> On the -1.6.3 machine, zillions of files got "updated", and their
> modtimes were touched.  On the -1.8.1 machine, the "cvs update" did
> nothing.
>
> Peter:  Is this a known bug?
>
> Dima:  Could you update your cvs to the version from -current?


Ugh ... actually I can, but I'm running -stable here, and every time I'm
recompiling system - I'll have to recompile cvs stuff after that.
The question is - how about to bring these changes from -current to -stable?
(I know, -stable is almost dead, but this is a bug fix, so it should be
realy usefull)

>
> Ernie: If you were using CVSup, this wouldn't be happening to you.
>        (Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-)
>
> John
> --
>    John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
>    John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
>    "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth
>-- End of excerpt from John Polstra


-- dima