From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 14 22:10:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA16185 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 May 1995 22:10:36 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA16179 for ; Sun, 14 May 1995 22:10:34 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id XAA24801; Sun, 14 May 1995 23:14:37 -0600 Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 23:14:37 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199505150514.XAA24801@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Amancio Hasty Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make world & cvs In-Reply-To: <199505150104.SAA02859@star-gate.com> References: <199505150015.SAA24239@trout.sri.MT.net> <199505150104.SAA02859@star-gate.com> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty writes: > Not sure what was the story here or why sup failed to update cvs properly > several times till I moved over the cvs directory. > > If it helps here is the sup file which I used: > > gnu release=current host=SUP.FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr > prefix=/usr/src delete old Hmm, you're the second person whose noticed this. The 'old' option to the sup file should have noticed the change, and the delete option should have killed the file. The only thing I can think of is that somehow the permissions on the file were such that the 'sup' process couldn't delete it with it's standard deletion routine. Nate