Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:44:34 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: cvs repository nits and gnats Message-ID: <38E08D12.DC350F14@gorean.org>
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Greetings,
I'm working on a new project and had the need for a clean set of
sources on a new machine. In the course of setting it all up I neglected
to copy over my .cvsrc file which has (amongst other things) 'co -P'. In
checking out the sources for RELENG_4 I ended up with a large number of
empty directories. Some of them were obviously relics of the past, like
src/TODO-2.1, src/usr.sbin/xntpd, etc. There were a large number in
contrib, probably detritus from imports, etc. I'm not sure if this is
significant, it obviously doesn't do any harm. I just thought I'd
mention it.
Slightly more serious was the presence of various lock
files/directories. Specifically, one in src/games/primes killed my co as
an unpriviliged user because it was set 700 and owned by root. The co
failed because it couldn't create a lock file. I did a 'find . -name
\*\#\* in my CVSROOT and found several other files like this. Deleting
them did no harm, and they didn't return when I ran cvsup again.
Finally, a question. I'm doing my cvs co/update on this machine
remotely via rsh (within our secure network of course). When I start the
update it creates an entire src directory tree in /tmp. This takes a
great deal of time, so I'm wondering if this can be avoided somehow? I'm
doing the cvs rsh as root on the client machine, and as an unpriviliged
user on the cvs server machine.
Hope this is helpful,
Doug
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