From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 3 13:34: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E00215294 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA39141; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:30:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:30:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Warner Losh Cc: mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH)) In-Reply-To: <199907031900.NAA28825@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Matthew Jacob writes: > : You have to wait at least a little bit because with CVS there is no atomic > : update of a set of modules. IF make world is broken, waiting at least a > : certain period of time and then doing another update is important to > : ensure that you just simply updated only part of a an active checkin > : cycle. > > Which is why when I hit this, I check the commit messages. I also do > a cvsup to freefall (normally I just hit one of the mirrors) and see > if the problem is in the sources of the moment. If the problem > persisits, I either see if it is trivial to fix and/or send mail to > the committer. Sometimes, if I'm thinking, I'll see if they are > actively logged into freefall and contact them there.... Checking commit messages was the first thing I did, in this case. > > I do realize this isn't an option for everybody, but has worked for me > in the past. > > Warner > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message