Date: 23 Dec 1996 09:41:23 -0800 From: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what happenedto src/release/*? Message-ID: <59mg83$955@austin.polstra.com> References: <199612230616.RAA23698@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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In article <199612230616.RAA23698@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>,
David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> While redoing the update (for src-release), I'm getting:
>
> Server warning: Cannot open "/home/cvsup/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/rele
> ase/compat/compat1x.tgz.uu,v": No such file or directory
> Server warning: Cannot open "/home/cvsup/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/rele
> ase/compat/compat20.tgz.uu,v": No such file or directory
> Server warning: Cannot open "/home/cvsup/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/rele
> ase/compat/compat21.tgz.uu,v": No such file or directory
I think you must have been doing your update at the same time that Peter
was doing this:
peter 96/12/22 22:04:23
Removed: release/compat compat1x.tgz.uu compat20.tgz.uu
compat21.tgz.uu
Log:
Ditch the tarballs (or lardballs as jkh calls them :-)
Since these files will no longer have tags, the rcs files can disappear to
the archives to recover the space.
The server identifies the files needing updates in one thread, and does
the actual updating in a second, asynchronous thread. If a file gets
deleted in between these two threads, you can get messages like those
above. This does not apply to the usual "cvs rm" case, where a file is
moved into the Attic -- that's handled fine. It's only when a file is
manually deleted from the repository -- which, of course, "never"
happens. :-)
About the original problem with the missing src-release collection: I'm
currently testing a system that will keep the config files for all
mirrors up to date and in sync with freefall automatically. (That's the
motivation behind the new top-level "distrib" tree in the repository.)
That will hopefully eliminate this common problem for all time.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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