From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 14 18:48:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA22270 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:48:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA22264 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:48:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id UAA11152; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:48:06 -0600 (CST) Posted-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:48:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from fools.ecpnet.com(204.246.64.101) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma011033; Fri, 14 Feb 97 20:47:43 -0600 Received: from localhost (moke@localhost) by fools.ecpnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA21860; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:44:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:44:48 -0600 (CST) From: Jimbo Bahooli To: Wolfgang Helbig cc: bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't make world... need help In-Reply-To: <199702150045.BAA00722@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > > > > > Looks like you might have fallen in between the holes, and hit > > > lite/2 merging effects. > > > > So, how do I recover? Before posting my previous note I had already > > looped through the "doctrinal routine" several times, expecting that my > > problem would "self-correct". After a couple of days I started doubting > > that and resorted to posting a message to this list. Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > Tracking -current is like running forward while looking > > > at your shoes. Thus standard procedure is: > > > > > > 1) SUP/CVSUP > > > 2) Compile > > > 3) It doesn't work ? Tough luck :-) > > > wait a couple of hours and go to 1) > ^^^^^ > Sometimes this has to be changed to days :-( . > > Because of the ongoing Lite/2 merge you should not expect make world to work > before Monday. > > Wolfgang > Actually a way to change this with cvsup is to add the line -> *default date=97.02.10.02.00 This will 'downgrade' your sources to about 15 minutes before they went and broke it. ;)