From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 23 09:41:28 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA11734 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA11729 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:41:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) id JAA09384; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:41:24 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: what happenedto src/release/*? Date: 23 Dec 1996 09:41:23 -0800 Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 47 Distribution: local Message-ID: <59mg83$955@austin.polstra.com> References: <199612230616.RAA23698@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199612230616.RAA23698@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>, David Dawes 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth