From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 22 13:16: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA1237B43E for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11454; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:15:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08632; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:15:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15114.51414.50651.695529@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:15:18 -0600 (MDT) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Terry Lambert , Wilko Bulte , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -R for make update ? In-Reply-To: <20010522125919.D27648@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010521194828.A789@freebie.demon.nl> <3B0A46CF.9D0CB622@mindspring.com> <20010522125919.D27648@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Is there any specific reason why one needs to be able to > > > write a lock to the CVS repo when running 'make update' > > > to get a freshly checked out source? > > > > Yeah: you aren't running your CVS server in "pserver" > > mode, and so are trying to do a lock, either in your > > local copy, or over NFS. > > > > If you run your repository in pserver mode, the CVS server > > will be connected to over the network, instead of attacking > > your CVS repo directly, and you won't have the problem you > > are seeing, since the cvs server will be able to get the > > lock, no problem. > > It will also be freakishly slow, and use massive amounts of temp > space. No slower than cvs using rsh/ssh, although it does tend to create alot of inodes in /tmp. (It doesn't create alot of temp space, other than what is used to create the directories...) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message