Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:30:03 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: The Unicorn <unicorn@blackhats.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvsup trouble Message-ID: <20010522103003.D30483@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010522091400.D31941@unicorn.blackhats.org>; from unicorn@blackhats.org on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:14:00AM %2B0200 References: <20010521214919.A31941@unicorn.blackhats.org> <20010521144853.E19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <038701c0e230$68eacda0$931576d8@inethouston.net> <20010521145718.F19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010521184906.U37979@elvis.mu.org> <20010522091400.D31941@unicorn.blackhats.org>
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On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:14:00AM +0200, The Unicorn wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Bill Fumerola supposedly wrote: > > > [ cvs-committers moved to bcc: ] > > > > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:57:18PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:58:31PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > > As posted before, that does not work, try doing that and then cvsupping > > > > twice in a row. you have to delete your checkouts file to fix it. > > > > > > Someone mentioned that just removing the "files" line in the checkouts > > > file would fix it.. of course, I don't use cvsup anymore. :-) > > > > If you don't use it then why offer (mis-)information about it? Just Press 'D'. > > He, for one, did correct the problem. > > > In any event, Mr. Unicorn[1], please avoid using cvs-committers@ as your > > personal help mailing list. questions@freebsd.org is comprised of lots of > > people who would like to help with these kinds of questions. > > This being the exact kind of mail why so many potential users refrain > from continuing to use FreeBSD as their Operating System triggered me to > reply to your message. Most of them turning eventually to Linux after > getting a similar treatment from the OpenBSD community. You do not even > try to formulate a possible answer, but only tell people what not to do, > and reroute the question to another mailinglist, while a possible > solution and a reroute would be so much more helpful. I might possibly > use questions@freebsd.org in the future should another problem arise, so > your hint has not been shouted at deaf ears. > > I am sorry to use the cvs-commiters list as "my personal help mailing > list", but in my reasoning it does contain all cvs-committers who are > "responsible" for creating the problem in the first place, so what > better way than to ask for a little help at the source. I might even > learn something in the process. Secondly I did try to resolve the > problem before posting the message (I always do), but failed and at that > time I could not find a possible solution in, to me, available > resources. > > To answer your personal question. My name is Hans Van de Looy, chairman > of the Dutch FreeBSD User Group, trying to evangelize the use of FreeBSD > (and OpenBSD and NetBSD for those platforms not supported yet by the > FreeBSD product) in the Netherlands (although we also have people from > Belgium joining our events). I do appreciate your work on the FreeBSD > product a lot, as I do everybody elses work as well, but email messages > like these do not make my "job" any easier. ;-) > > > -- > > Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. > > - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org > > > > 1. we really like real names around these parts, btw. > > --- End of Quoted Text --- > > BTW. Thanks again to all the others who did provide me with some > pointers to a (possible) solution. It worked out. Now I am going to read > why this manual intervention had to take place in the first place... :-) You could also try the 'official' answer by John D. Polstra, the CVSup author and maintainer, at http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24597 There's a detailed analysis and workaround of this particular little bug in CVSup's handling a very obscure and rare CVS repository weirdness. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - well, no, actually it doesn't! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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