From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 23 21:44:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09287 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09278 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id QAA09665; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:43:59 +1100 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma009641; Tue, 24 Feb 98 16:43:41 +1100 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA23711 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:43:35 +1100 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA276959013; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:43:34 +1100 Message-Id: <34F25BC6.13E2F7A8@scitec.com.au> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:33:58 +1100 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: stable branch funnies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I've been wanting to track -stable and I think I've managed to get on top of how to keep up using cvsup. But then I got a surprise yesterday. I installed the source from my 2.2.5 CD and did a make world on it which went OK. Machine still boots and works OK. Then I read up on cvsup and I'm using it with a RELENG_2_2 tag to suck updates from cvsup.au.freebsd.org (If anybody else does this remember to unblock ports 5999 and 5998, if you firewall, as it helps a lot :-) I got the cvsup-stable file from the web handbook. I did my first cvsup a few days ago and I got a nice log file of deltas being applied and files checked out (for example the game boggle seemed to be a totally new game). I didn't do a build after this due to time constraints. Then yesterday I had time to do a build but decided to run cvsup and get the latest and greatest before doing the build. What was strange is that I noticed the boggle game being deleted but didn't think anything more than "gee I would have liked to play it once". I then tried a build which failed due to a problem in libg++. I now have a number of possibilities for this failure and I'm not sure how to proceed. 1) -stable is very volatile and whole programs coming and going, and failed builds, is a part of life. (I can't really believe this). 2) Somehow cvsup managed to reverse the sup it did a few days ago and removed things it shouldn't have (evidence boggle going). Or maybe it just went plain bonkers :-) 3) Who knows? Reading up on the cvsup man page it says that it maintains a file(s) so it knows what versions it has of each file. I have yet to locate these files and after 2 runs of cvsup I would have expected these files to be created. Is these missing files somehow confusing cvsup about what versions it has and what it needs? If anybody has some clues or tips I would be glad of some help. Thanks. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message