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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:09:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net>
Subject:   Re: CVS filling /tmp (was Re: FreeBSD CVS Question (answered!))
Message-ID:  <20040114120728.V13656@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040114105209.GL39353@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
References:  <20040112132544.D54803@pooker.samsco.home> <200401140029.27160.max@love2party.net> <p0602046fbc2a4a50e4dd@[128.113.24.47]> <20040114114446.53b301e4@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20040114105209.GL39353@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote:

SH>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:44:46AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
SH>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:55:41 +0100
SH>> Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> wrote:
SH>>
SH>> [cvs over rsh/ssh]
SH>> > I have seen this too, and sometimes this has prevented me from checking
SH>> > out RELENG_4 or some such from a machine with a swap backed /tmp. Is
SH>> > there *any* workaround other than using cvsup? Is there a logical
SH>> > explanation for this or is it just an unfixed bug in CVS?
SH>>
SH>> Use NFS to mount the repository on the machine you want to checkout on.
SH>
SH>Yes, that was what I did eventually. I was hoping that I was just missing
SH>something, but obviously I'm not. Thanks for the pointer though.

I missed the start of this thread, but re-directing the remote CVS temp
directory would probably help:

CVS_SERVER="cvs -T /var/tmp" cvs ....

This helps also with remote read-only repository because cvs does not push
the -R flag to the remote CVS:

CVS_SERVER="cvs -R" cvs ...

harti

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