Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:12:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loads of SetAttrs in cvsup of cvs repo Message-ID: <199907042012.WAA05028@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199907041856.LAA08300@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Jul 4, 1999 11:56:45 am"
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As John Polstra wrote ... > In article <199907041806.UAA03332@yedi.iaf.nl>, > Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote: > > Maybe this is a stupid question and/or FAQ but: > > You probably should have written to cvsup-bugs@polstra.com instead > of the -current list. Well, I was not exactly claiming this is a cvsup bug of some sorts. > > I'm currently cvsupping updates on the CVS repository. Most of the > > times that is a couple of minutes, but today it is already 1 hour busy. > > > > Mainly with: > > > > SetAttr <bla> > > > > (loads and loads of these). > > > > What gives? > > Several things can cause this: > > - You are running cvsup with a different umask than usual. To guard > against this, you can add a "umask=022" setting in your supfile > (CVSup-16.0 and later). I ran cvsup as root, umask set to 022. But I added the umask line to the supfile just to make sure. > - You are running cvsup under a different user-id than usual. This > probably has no effect unless you have "preserve" in your supfile. > That's almost always a bad idea except for special situations. I run it as root, and have always done so. Is this a bad idea maybe? > - You've accidentally touched all the files in your repository in > some way (changed their modtimes, changed their permissions, changed > their owners, etc.). Not that I recall having done so. But I'll keep a close eye on this. I just gave cvsup another try and it only took a few minutes updating some files in the repository. Which looked just fine. Thank you for your help, Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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