From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 20 15:29:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28697 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28688 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03483; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970620152941.01199@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:29:41 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Mark Mayo Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world error in RELENG_2_2 References: <26359.866788909@time.cdrom.com> <19970620120938.27122@vinyl.quickweb.com> <199706201913.MAA12625@austin.polstra.com> <19970620160235.20002@vinyl.quickweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <19970620160235.20002@vinyl.quickweb.com>; from Mark Mayo on Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 04:02:35PM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Mayo scribbled this message on Jun 20: > On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 12:13:55PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > You're certainly not the first person to get bitten by that. CVSup > > in general (exception described below) has the attitude, "If I > > didn't create it, I'm not allowed to delete it." Believe me, users > > get real offended if it behaves any other way. So things work just > > fine if you originally created your tree using CVSup. It knows it > > has the authority and the responsibility to clean up files that > > later get moved or deleted in the master source tree. > > Ok. I get it. That seems reasonable - indeed, good material for the > FAQ. :-) hmmm... maybe also talking about how you can modify $BASEDIR/sup/modulename/checkouts.cvs to force cvsup to think it owns all the files in a tree... I remeber I had VERY similar problems, but I started with a CVS tree instead of the source tree... I probably still have the email from John Polstra about it... :) hope this helps some others too... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD