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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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