Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 06:50:38 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: dan@langille.org Cc: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your Makefile has been rebuilt. Message-ID: <3C48363E.9020901@owt.com> References: <200201181309.g0ID90D54149@lists.unixathome.org>
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Dan Langille wrote: > On 17 Jan 2002 at 19:13, Kent Stewart wrote: > > >>I think that anyone who has been following stable since that time >>thinks about the system clock first on strange errors and then looks >>at other possibilities. >> > > But it's lore. I plan to add something, somewhere, to the handbook. What > I think is needed is a short section of items to consider when things go > bad. Items such as checking the system clock, doing another cvsup if your > port doesn't build, etc. This will cover about 70% of the solutions. The rest depends on some sort of pattern recognition. This goes back to why did I see the MAC address on the SiS-900 was 0:0... and you didn't. If you are going to use cvsup, then you should be following cvs-all. Mindlessly running cvsup on a system doesn't accomplish anything when nothing has changed. I have a log of all of my recent system builds. I use Ben Smithhurst's cvsuplog to convert every cvsup.log into HTML. Clicking on the changed module takes you to the appropriate location in the cvsweb/cgi. You pretty well know who dropped the bit that broke your build. I also have a cvsup log of every cvsup of ports-all that I have done recently. If they are going to re-cvsup, then they should know that doing it anymore frequent than an hour after the original cvsup could be pointless because the mirrors are only updated hourly. Kent > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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