From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 31 2:52:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4389037B423 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:52:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA02992; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:52:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3C304370.9090505@owt.com> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:52:32 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Lord Raiden , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVsup bug?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Annelise Anderson wrote: > 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. It can do some interesting things. Your cvsup updated source will be older (~1 Jan 1970) than the code produced by the previous make and strange combinations can occur. This would only be important if you have made a large jump in code levels and never removed /usr/obj. Kent --- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message