From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 24 11:24:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A047737B424 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8OIONo23354; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:24:23 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:24:23 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Andre Goeree Cc: Brooks Davis , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ's (was: Makeworld is dying...) Message-ID: <20000924112423.A22965@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <39C42DF4.978A63C@urx.com> <20000917160006.D67912@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000918154418.P8111@moose.bri.hp.com> <20000924095410.A65590@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000924092354.A473@freebee.attica.home> <20000924003413.A2018@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20000924104652.A1327@freebee.attica.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000924104652.A1327@freebee.attica.home>; from abgoeree@uwnet.nl on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:46:52AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:46:52AM +0000, Andre Goeree wrote: > The tag itself in fact has nothing to do with it. > > It's the point that cvsup will not delete any files without a > checkouts file and that this IMHO could lead to inconsistencies in > the source tree or at least a lot of stale files dangling around. > By taking the steps mentioned in Q-12,13 of the cvsup-faq you > can prevent this. > This is also where the tag RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE comes in and it's > only purpose is to create a checkouts file for later use. I stand corrected with regards to the behavior of CVSup. I believe that in general this failure to delete files will results in wasted space and nothing more. I've certinalty never done this and haven't had problems attributable to it. Also, the FreeBSD build process generally seems to explicitly lists files rather then including them by wild cards so extra files should have no effect. That said, I'll admit that most of the tenish systems I update have been switched to CVSup a repository and then check out their source from it so I can maintain local changes which would midigate this problem if it were happening. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message