From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 21 15:30:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B4E37B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4LMUh041014; Mon, 21 May 2001 15:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f4LMUhL02894; Mon, 21 May 2001 15:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105212230.f4LMUhL02894@vashon.polstra.com> To: ports@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: stijn@win.tue.nl Subject: Re: cvs repository inconsistent? In-Reply-To: <20010522001931.A64892@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <3B09323F.E6A28068@windriver.com> <9ebo61$1i0g$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <200105212211.f4LMBmg02821@vashon.polstra.com> <20010522001931.A64892@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <20010522001931.A64892@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>, Stijn Hoop wrote: > But this morning I already 'fixed' the problem by mv'ing my > checkouts file, and recvsupping. Why is this not such a good > solution? It's a tolerable solution, but it's not an ideal solution. There is an explanation of the pitfalls here: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html#adopt http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html#extrafiles John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message