From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 31 2: 0: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AF237B429 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:00:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA84129; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:49:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:49:25 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVsup bug?? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20011230213124.009c3df0@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Lord Raiden wrote: > Hey, I'm just now hearing about this apparent bug that was in > CVsup. Something to do with Unix turning 1 billion. Tried to update my > ports and it crashed CVsup, which upon patching it killed Elf that in turn > blew the box I was working on all to dust. So, I'm in progress of > rebuilding this one from the bottom up. > > So, anyone care to explain to me this bug? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > The bug created problems as of September 9, 2001, as I recall. At this time, all cvsup servers should simply refuse your cvsup request and tell you to update cvsup. I've run cvsup (old versions) on machines and it never blew a box to dust. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message