Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:39:47 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Andre Goeree <abgoeree@uwnet.nl>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ's (was: Makeworld is dying...) Message-ID: <200009250339.VAA00570@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:24:23 PDT." <20000924112423.A22965@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20000924112423.A22965@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <39C42DF4.978A63C@urx.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009170918240.13465-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il> <20000917160006.D67912@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000918154418.P8111@moose.bri.hp.com> <20000924095410.A65590@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000924092354.A473@freebee.attica.home> <20000924003413.A2018@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20000924104652.A1327@freebee.attica.home>
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In message <20000924112423.A22965@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes: : in general this failure to delete files will results in wasted space and : nothing more. I can't say about FreeBSD, but sup has a delete option too (cvsup was influanced by sup). I use sup/rsync to get my NetBSD sources. Their sources have moved around enough that failure to have this in my sup/rsync file caused NetBSD to be completely uncompilable by me. Now I did get the CVS tree, which meant that all those files that moved to the attic weren't in the attic, and thus were cluttering up my NetBSD /usr/src tree. This clutter caused obsolete files to be used instead of the newer, good ones and caused three programs to fail to compile for me. The really sad part is that it took me two months to figure out why my freshly checked out sources wouldn't build, while other people had no problems at all. I didn't look too hard for a while, but it did take about a day of hunting to finally figure out why... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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