Date: 7 Jan 1999 07:47:32 -0000 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS issues Message-ID: <19990107074732.28807.qmail@ns.oeno.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990106211825.jdp@polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:18:25 -0800 (PST))
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> > What happens if you cvsup from a site that has an older version of the > > tree than you do? > Since the relevant mirror sites all update themselves hourly from > freefall, that's unlikely. You would have to run cvsup twice in > an hour for it to happen. It could still happen if you lost the > connection and then reconnected to a different server. But even then > the damage would be fairly small. Any changes that existed on the > first server but not on the second server would be taken away. But > normally, not much happens in an hour in the FreeBSD repository. And > those changes that were removed would come back again on your next > update. That's when everything is working right. If all of the mirror sites are basically independent, there's no way to know for sure that all of the mirror sites are working properly, one of them may even be several days behind, for whatever reason (like broken networks isolating it from freefall). I would prefer to know that when I run cvsup, I'm going to get a newer version of the FreeBSD repository, not an older one. When using a specific mirror, something has to get *really* screwed up for that to happen. Of course I don't use any of the US mirrors myself, anyhow, but I suspect that losing changes may cause unexpected problems. Use your imagination. ;--) At the very least, problems with one mirror could cause significant increases in traffic on all mirrors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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