Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:50:36 +1300 From: "Richard Shea" <richardshea@fastmail.fm> To: "Jonathan Chen" <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ? Message-ID: <20021123075036.3A5CF648C32@server5.fastmail.fm>
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, "Jonathan Chen" <jonc@chen.org.nz>
said:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote:
>
Hi - Thanks for your reply ...
> [...]
> > Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process
> > commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I thought this was a bit
> > suprising given I thought the whole point of CVS was to only pull those
> > files which had changed - it just seemed to be pulling everying ! Anyway
> > I had to CTRL-C it after a while as the file system had gone to 105%.
>
> Well, if you're moving from 4.4 to 4.7, there will be *quite* a lot of
> files which will have changed.
>
I didn't really want to go all the way to 4.7 in one go I think if i
change my cvsupfile so that it reads
*default tag=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE
that will be what I want ...
[SNIP]
> cvsup installs directly into /usr/{src|ports|doc}. Your sources are
> probably in an indeterminate state. However, if you rerun cvsup, it will
> fix itself up.
>
good
[SNIP]
> If you intend on just upgrading your system sources, you don't need
> ports-all and doc-all. src-all is approx 298M and the ports-all is
> about 162M. Dunno about doc-all. Removing the ports-all and doc-all
> will probably just squeeze your update in. I'm unsure whether you'll
> have enough space to recompile your system though...
>
Even the 162M presents a problem and I was wondering if there some way I
could suck the sources onto a different file system which has more space
than /usr and get CVSUP to compile them from there ?
regards
richard shea.
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