From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 18:11:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.tetronsoftware.com (ns1.tetronsoftware.com [64.217.1.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9773137B42C for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tetronsoftware.com (ns1.tetronsoftware.com [64.217.1.41]) by ns1.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13227; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:11:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:11:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Gene Harris To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS question: 3.X-stable vs softupdates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Tetron Software, LLC http://www.tetronsoftware.com FreeBSD Apache PostgreSQL Oracle 8/8i Windows 95/98/NT Visual C Visual Basic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message