Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:17:34 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: subscr@spider.netmails.net Subject: Re: Endless SetAttrs while cvsup-ing from 4.7 Release to RELENG_4_7 Message-ID: <200211260317.gAQ3HYWB001899@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net> References: <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net>
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In article <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net>, Hari Bhaskaran
<subscr@spider.netmails.net> wrote:
> I am trying to cvsup my system to RELENG_4_7 starting from a 4.7
> CD installation (so that I can track the security fixes and get
> the latest ports). However, I see the process spending hours to do
> this. I get hundreds of SetAtrr lines.
Yes, you will get those the first time you "adopt" a tree that was
not created by CVSup itself.
> Assuming it is only setting attributes, I am surprised it takes this
> long.
It involves a lot of disk activity.
> I ran it once more (after having completed the first round),
> but I still see hundreds of SetAttr's. It doesn't look quite
> right for some many of those files to have changed attributes
> (if that's what it means).
For this one, see the CVSup FAQ:
http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#setattrs
John
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John Polstra
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
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