Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:14:41 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Victor Sudakov <sudakov+freebsd@sibptus.tomsk.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file" Message-ID: <20100615131441.5b82d4eb@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20100615022837.GB23583@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <4B408745.3030309@andric.com> <20100103154503.GA63734@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20100103221655.GA76049@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100104130315.GA79633@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20100104133657.GA47668@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20100104143749.GA80433@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20100104223631.GC41129@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100105064720.GA94590@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20100614044308.GA4670@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <09f445615c18768df17418f06d872a46.squirrel@www.noacks.org> <20100615022837.GB23583@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:28:37 +0700 Victor Sudakov <sudakov+freebsd@sibptus.tomsk.ru> wrote: > Jonathan Noack wrote: > > >> But to hell with this. I started the topic because I think something > > >> is wrong with SVN to CVS export, which upsets cvsup and causes > > >> "Checksum mismatch" errors. Is anybody willing to look at it? > > > > > > I see nobody is ever going to fix this? Cvsup mails me a bunch of > > > "Checksum mismatch" errors on every run, with a risk of overlooking > > > real errors. > > > > > > How do others deal with this noise? Do you grep cvsup output or what? > > > > Seems like newer versions of CVS break assumptions made by CVSup on the > > ordering of branch revisions: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hubs/2009-August/002083.html > > > > "So, in short I don't see any easy solutions to this, and especially given > > the fact that in the long run CVS/CVSup will probably be replaced by > > something else for distributing FreeBSD source, I don't think it will be > > that easy to find someone to "fix" either CVSup or CVS." > > Thanks for the link. Somebody wrote here that the problem was perhaps > in the svn2cvs script, but Simon's post gives a different outlook. > > Maybe nobody is going to fix CVSup (is it not actively developed > already?), but csup is relatively recent and alive. Once it has a CVS > mode, maybe it could be adjusted? > csup already has a CVS mode, at least in 9-current. I don't use older versions of FreeBSD so I don't know whether it supports CVS there. -- Gary Jennejohn
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