From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 24 0:34:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1991C37B424 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8O7YDK02212; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:34:13 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:34:13 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Andre Goeree Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ's (was: Makeworld is dying...) Message-ID: <20000924003413.A2018@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <39C42DF4.978A63C@urx.com> <20000917160006.D67912@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000918154418.P8111@moose.bri.hp.com> <20000924095410.A65590@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000924092354.A473@freebee.attica.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000924092354.A473@freebee.attica.home>; from abgoeree@uwnet.nl on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0000, Andre Goeree wrote: > I think a lot of people start cvsuppin' without checking out > their source tree against the known version of code they have. > ie. if you have 4.0-R, cvsup with tag RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE once > and then track RELENG_4. > > Omitting this step could lead to (if you cvsup from 4.0-R for example) > a lot of inconsistencies, stale files that should have been > deleted, etc in the source tree which could cause problems > in (future) buildworlds. Ok, i'm not an expert but that's my > personal experience.. > > Unfortunately a lot of people (including me) only start reading > the FAQ's when they get in trouble.. so a hint (ie. read this first..) > in the right place could prevent this kind of trouble. > > Then again, i could be totally wrong about this, i'm no expert. This is just plain wrong. If you can actually duplicate this problem I'm sure John Polstra (jdp@FreeBSD.org) would love to hear about it, but that's certaintly not the way CVSup or CVS is supposed to work. There's really nothing special about RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE vs RELENG_4 since RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE is just a snapshot in time on the RELENG_4 branch. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message