Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:59:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating RELENG_4_3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0107292349440.7697-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3B62A31F.7EF92100@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk>
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, ian j hart wrote:
> cd /usr/src;make update (CVS) pulls down RELENG_4 not RELENG_4_3.
> There should at least be a warning in UPDATING. Shouldn't
> this be a variable in make.conf?
>
> <thinks out loud>
> Hmm. The -r would mean BRANCH would have to be a numeric or
> symbolic tag. What if you could do:
> CVSUPDATEFLAGS= -D "yesterday"
> That would fix updating during a commit. Or maybe not. Must find
> a cvs wizard and ask them if the commit time stamps are atomic.
It would not, if at this time yesterday, someone was doing a
commit.
If the suggestion, "leave a small commit-free window around
midnight UTC" is adopted, then you could use -D "00:00:00 UTC" and not
have to worry (although you'd have to translate that to
"[cc]yy.mm.dd.00.00.00" format for cvsup to process it).
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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