Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:05:26 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup can't delete file. Message-ID: <20010606100526.A18735@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010606072944.A34482@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>; from cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:29:44AM %2B0200 References: <15133.43478.140374.322288@trooper.velocet.net> <20010606072944.A34482@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:29:44AM +0200, Cejka Rudolf wrote: > David Gilbert wrote (2001/06/05): > > Here's the problem: When I cvsup against the server, I get > > > > Delete ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files > > Updater failed: Cannot delete "/usr/ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files": Directory not empty > > Similar problem occurs from time to time. I don't know, how it comes > into existence (John, do you?), but it prevents from pure automatic > updates and you have to check updates periodically and delete client's > file in sup directory sup/cvs-all/checkouts.cvs (or similar) by hand, > if there is any problem. > > > ... I have on my occaisions "rm -rf" on that directory on the client. > > The next cvsup will complete, but the cvsup following that one will > > fail. Out of frustration, I deleted that directory in the cvs > > repository and ran the update.sh (which runs the cvsup to update the > > cvs respository). The problem persists. > > Rather focus on checkouts.* files. Sometimes, cvsup writes > "Delete ...", however, in this case not. This has been discussed at great length on the -ports and -bugs lists. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27495 for a detailed analysis and workaround by John D. Polstra. Also, newer versions of the net/cvsup and net/cvsup-devel (I don't think there's a binary-only version yet) have patches to avoid this problem. G'luck, Peter -- because I didn't think of a good beginning of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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