From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 25 19:17:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C2E37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F8543E88 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:17:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAQ3HYdK059979; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:17:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gAQ3HYWB001899; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:17:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:17:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200211260317.gAQ3HYWB001899@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: subscr@spider.netmails.net Subject: Re: Endless SetAttrs while cvsup-ing from 4.7 Release to RELENG_4_7 In-Reply-To: <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net> References: <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net>, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > I am trying to cvsup my system to RELENG_4_7 starting from a 4.7 > CD installation (so that I can track the security fixes and get > the latest ports). However, I see the process spending hours to do > this. I get hundreds of SetAtrr lines. Yes, you will get those the first time you "adopt" a tree that was not created by CVSup itself. > Assuming it is only setting attributes, I am surprised it takes this > long. It involves a lot of disk activity. > I ran it once more (after having completed the first round), > but I still see hundreds of SetAttr's. It doesn't look quite > right for some many of those files to have changed attributes > (if that's what it means). For this one, see the CVSup FAQ: http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#setattrs John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message