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Date:      Sat, 03 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH)) 
Message-ID:  <199907031900.NAA28825@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jul 1999 21:59:02 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907022157450.1622-100000@semuta.feral.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907022157450.1622-100000@semuta.feral.com>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907022157450.1622-100000@semuta.feral.com> 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



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