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Date:      Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:18:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        cls@raggedclown.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: failure in make buildworld (inelegant solution)
Message-ID:  <200210122118.g9CLIliA021849@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021012210444.GB484@raggedclown.net>

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>Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:04:44 +0200
>From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>

>Mmm instead of an update I did a complete CVS fetch for stable, and it
>compiled fine..I wonder if my cvs commands need something during an
>update when a new directory needs to be made - since this has happened
>once or twice before.

Well, I use CVSup to update a local CVS repository, and /usr/src is just
a CVS working directory.

So I have a ~/.cvsrc that reads:

diff -u -N
update -d -P
checkout -P


Since "cvs update" is how I update /usr/src, I think the -d flag is the
one you may have been missing.

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between the
discipline of systems administration and Microsoft, since they have
nothing in common.

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