Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 16:31:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Peeter Pirn <peeter@rhubarb.fwi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot `cvs co' from cvsup-ed repository Message-ID: <20001119003104.0BA351F30@static.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20001118130600.A890@rhubarb.fwi.com> "from Peeter Pirn at Nov 18, 2000 01:06:01 pm"
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> I am having trouble running
>
> cvs co -r RELENG_4 world
>
> from the FreeBSD repository I have cvsup-ed to my machine. My cvsup
> config file is:
<snip cvsup config file>
>
> I run cvsup from cron and it appears to work fine.
>
> The group owner of the cvsup repository is `cvsup'. I am also a member
> of the group `cvsup', which gives me permission to check out from the
> repository.
>
> However, when I run `cvs co', the command runs, the hard disk gets
> very busy, but nothing appears to stdout or stderr and no checked
> out files are written!
How long have you waited? If this is your first time checking out
RELENG_4 soruces, you may have to wait some time before it will start
writing files (approx. 10 mins for me).
I believe what it's doing is going through every file in the
repository and checking that the tag exists. Regardless of whether
that's true or not--I'm sure someone will correct me in the latter
case--it will only do this the first time you check out from a
particular tag/branch. After that, it will record its findings in
CVSROOT/val-tags and life will go on.
If you really don't want to wait, you can add a line like this:
RELENG_4 y
to CVSROOT/val-tags in your local repository (create the file if it
doesn't exist). I'm not sure if this has any ill effects, however.
Hope this helps
--
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