From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 2:44:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E508D37B5C6 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA33527; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:44:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38E08D12.DC350F14@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:44:34 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0325 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm Subject: cvs repository nits and gnats Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I'm working on a new project and had the need for a clean set of sources on a new machine. In the course of setting it all up I neglected to copy over my .cvsrc file which has (amongst other things) 'co -P'. In checking out the sources for RELENG_4 I ended up with a large number of empty directories. Some of them were obviously relics of the past, like src/TODO-2.1, src/usr.sbin/xntpd, etc. There were a large number in contrib, probably detritus from imports, etc. I'm not sure if this is significant, it obviously doesn't do any harm. I just thought I'd mention it. Slightly more serious was the presence of various lock files/directories. Specifically, one in src/games/primes killed my co as an unpriviliged user because it was set 700 and owned by root. The co failed because it couldn't create a lock file. I did a 'find . -name \*\#\* in my CVSROOT and found several other files like this. Deleting them did no harm, and they didn't return when I ran cvsup again. Finally, a question. I'm doing my cvs co/update on this machine remotely via rsh (within our secure network of course). When I start the update it creates an entire src directory tree in /tmp. This takes a great deal of time, so I'm wondering if this can be avoided somehow? I'm doing the cvs rsh as root on the client machine, and as an unpriviliged user on the cvs server machine. Hope this is helpful, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message