From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 3 12: 4:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D6115211 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12817; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:02:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA28825; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199907031900.NAA28825@harmony.village.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH)) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jul 1999 21:59:02 PDT." References: Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Matthew Jacob writes: : You have to wait at least a little bit because with CVS there is no atomic : update of a set of modules. IF make world is broken, waiting at least a : certain period of time and then doing another update is important to : ensure that you just simply updated only part of a an active checkin : cycle. Which is why when I hit this, I check the commit messages. I also do a cvsup to freefall (normally I just hit one of the mirrors) and see if the problem is in the sources of the moment. If the problem persisits, I either see if it is trivial to fix and/or send mail to the committer. Sometimes, if I'm thinking, I'll see if they are actively logged into freefall and contact them there.... I do realize this isn't an option for everybody, but has worked for me in the past. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message