Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:20:19 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup: a newbie's tale. Message-ID: <36E45B33.CD6E4F92@eboa.com> References: <19990308072940.ZTCV682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
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Dan Langille wrote: > > > "I changed the base directory where the status files will be maintained. > > Don't forget to create this directory. > > > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup" > > > > Q. Why would one want to change the base directory? > > So you can decide where you put the files and directories. Here's that > directory on my machine: Obviously <g>. I can't for the life of me remember what I intended to find out with that question, but still... > ... > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 10 Feb 3 04:28 FreeBSD.cvs -> /home/ncvs > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 2 Feb 3 04:28 distrib.self -> .. > > These are the symbolic links to where the data is actually stored. > > Hope that helps. root:/usr/local/etc/cvsup# du 1 . root:/usr/local/etc/cvsup# ls -la total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 8 03:52 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Mar 8 03:18 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39 Mar 8 03:52 ports-supfile -> /usr/share/ examples/cvsup/ports-supfile lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 47 Mar 8 03:49 secure-stable-supfile -> /usr/share/ examples/cvsup/secure-stable-supfile lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40 Mar 8 03:28 stable-supfile -> /usr/share/example s/cvsup/stable-supfile I ran cvsup and made world. Since there's hardly anything in it is it because it gets used for temporary storage? Also I did not change the base directory. So if any "data is actually stored" where did it go? (apart from /usr/src of course). Also, you did not change the base directory, you filled it with symbolic links. Hm. Or could it be that /usr/local/etc/cvsup is not its default base directory? In which case, what is. Can't remember having seen it anywhere. Also "I changed the base directory where the status files will be maintained." is ambiguous. Status files instead of control files or configuration files could mean that it is the cvsup program that does the maintaining. Personally I would prefer the sentence to read "where the configuration files will be maintained". That would more clearly indicate it is *you* that will be doing the maintaining. As usual <g>. I guess this is a case where I expected all kinds of interesting magic to occur, whereas we in fact are talking not so much about the base directory as something where all kinds of files and statusses (states) get maintained but simply a place to store some cvsup.conf and nothing more. Would make sense under an /etc. Thus not the base of operations for cvsup, but merely the location of its configuration files? Bit of an anti-climax then <g>. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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