Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:11:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS question: 3.X-stable vs softupdates Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009102009560.2226-100000@ns1.tetronsoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210109b5e1db76108a@[128.113.24.47]>
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Acutally, it was a CVS problem. I deleted my /usr/src directory and started
over. Everything is now in place. Although the UPDATING file has no
information in it.
Thanks,
Gene
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 10:39 AM -0500 9/9/00, Gene Harris wrote:
> >I recently pulled the latest version of 3.x-STABLE onto my machine.
> >I did not know that I needed to remove the symlinks for the
> >softupates, and cvsup was not able to update all of my source code.
> >I received an error message that certain files did not exist
> >(softdep.h, etc.)
> >
> >I have removed my symlinks in ufs/ffs/*.[ch] Now my problem is
> >that cvsup will not update the files correctly. I watched the
> >cvsup process skip over softdep.h and ffs_*.c files, even though
> >they do not exist on my system.
> >
> >How can I resync cvsup to the version of source code on my system?
>
> I've modified the subject on your question, as I suspect this is
> not really an issue of "cvs" per se. It's really a question on
> how softupdates moved into the standard system. This has worked
> for me on 4.x-stable, but maybe something isn't quite right for
> people trying to do this with 3.x-stable.
>
> My hope is that someone who knows more about softupdates will
> see this subject and give you an actually useful reply :-)
>
>
> ---
> Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>
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