Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:21:26 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com> Cc: Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>, Justin Stanford <jus@security.za.net>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PR's foating in limbo for no apparent reason Message-ID: <20010402122126.E462@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <86elvtpqrb.fsf@juil.domain>; from m_ilya@agava.com on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:17:44PM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103191907380.39711-100000@titanic.medinet.si> <86elvtpqrb.fsf@juil.domain>
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:17:44PM +0300, Ilya Martynov wrote: > >>>>> "BZ" == Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net> writes: > > >> For no apparent reason every PR I send ends up in "pending" because of > >> supposed malformation, or whatever reason. I've gone through it > >> extensively with a member of the development team who is also > >> baffled. Enclosed is the raw pr that I saved before it was sent (which > >> subsequently, like all my others, went into pending) for your > >> examination. As far as we can see there is nothing wrong with this > >> submission. Ideas? > > BZ> I have noticed the same and have asked a couple of times on > BZ> various mailing lists with absolutely no answer. > > BZ> Until now I have been using "jed" as my editor. What I have > BZ> done is, now I use "vi" as my editor and another change I have > BZ> done is to remove all the comments (enclosed in "<" and ">") > BZ> from the PR. Now all my PR's go through just fine. > > BZ> Dunno which of the two changes fixed my problems, but I did > BZ> sometimes notice strange problems with "vipw" when using "jed" > BZ> as my editor. > > BTW I also seen problems when using jed as editor. I could not edit > crontab configs (crontab -e) when VISUAL=jed. I don't remeber details > because it was some time ago and even not on FreeBSD. I wonder if this could be related to difference in the way jed and vi modify files; ISTR some discussion and somebody stating that jed created a new file and then rename(2)'d it to the old one, while vi modified the old file directly, or vice versa. Maybe there are programs that open a file, then fstat() it periodically to see if something has changed; this will fail if the rename method is used - the old file shall seem unchanged, albeit disappeared. G'luck, Peter -- I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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