From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 24 17:42:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23631 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:42:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23621 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA23841; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:45:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199901250145.MAA23841@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: CVS totally broken on freefall In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Jan 24, 1999 8:35:26 pm" To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:45:16 +1100 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au, nsouch@teaser.fr, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote: > Might want to know that I just tried that, and was surprised to find out > that perl makes changes in it's obj dir during it's install. The > multiple installs from the same obj tree works *only* if you tar away > the gnu/usr.bin/perl and tmp/usr/bin dirs from the obj tree, and > reinstall them in the obj tree before each new install. That's good to know. I consider that is the sort of problem that should be fixed before _I'd_ attempt to upgrade an important production system. Until the upgrade process works on a scratch system, I wouldn't touch the production system at all. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message