Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:29:59 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS question: 3.X-stable vs softupdates Message-ID: <39BC3597.7684F7E0@urx.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009102009560.2226-100000@ns1.tetronsoftware.com>
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Gene Harris wrote: > > Acutally, it was a CVS problem. I deleted my /usr/src directory and started > over. Everything is now in place. Although the UPDATING file has no > information in it. According to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING it was gutted on 6 Jan 2000 and if no volunteered by 15 Feb it would be removed. Kent > > Thanks, > Gene > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 10:39 AM -0500 9/9/00, Gene Harris wrote: > > >I recently pulled the latest version of 3.x-STABLE onto my machine. > > >I did not know that I needed to remove the symlinks for the > > >softupates, and cvsup was not able to update all of my source code. > > >I received an error message that certain files did not exist > > >(softdep.h, etc.) > > > > > >I have removed my symlinks in ufs/ffs/*.[ch] Now my problem is > > >that cvsup will not update the files correctly. I watched the > > >cvsup process skip over softdep.h and ffs_*.c files, even though > > >they do not exist on my system. > > > > > >How can I resync cvsup to the version of source code on my system? > > > > I've modified the subject on your question, as I suspect this is > > not really an issue of "cvs" per se. It's really a question on > > how softupdates moved into the standard system. This has worked > > for me on 4.x-stable, but maybe something isn't quite right for > > people trying to do this with 3.x-stable. > > > > My hope is that someone who knows more about softupdates will > > see this subject and give you an actually useful reply :-) > > > > > > --- > > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > > Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu > > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > Tetron Software, LLC > http://www.tetronsoftware.com > FreeBSD Apache PostgreSQL Oracle 8/8i > Windows 95/98/NT Visual C Visual Basic > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.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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