From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 7 17:51:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA21745 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 17:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA21732 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 17:51:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA08301 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 17:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608080051.RAA08301@austin.polstra.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: CVSup problems with src/bin/ed/test/* Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 17:51:41 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk CVSup users: Some recent very strange changes to the RCS files in "/home/ncvs/src/bin/ed/test" have exposed a bug in the CVSup server. If you've been trying to do checkout-mode updates of the src-bin collection, and it's been failing mysteriously, that's probably the cause of it. I am working on a fix for the problem. Meanwhile, here is a way to work around it: 1. Remove all the files in your "src/bin/ed/test" directory. 2. Run cvsup to fetch them again. It won't take very long, because the files are small. That works. The problem happens when you try to _update_ the files. If you're checking them out from scratch, there's no problem. Sorry for the inconvenience. A found bug is a fixed bug (almost). -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth