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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:17:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        subscr@spider.netmails.net
Subject:   Re: Endless SetAttrs while cvsup-ing from 4.7 Release to RELENG_4_7
Message-ID:  <200211260317.gAQ3HYWB001899@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net>
References:  <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net>

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In article <20021125200436.A67414@spider.netmails.net>, Hari Bhaskaran
<subscr@spider.netmails.net> wrote:

> I am trying to cvsup my system to RELENG_4_7 starting from a 4.7
> CD installation (so that I can track the security fixes and get
> the latest ports). However, I see the process spending hours to do
> this. I get hundreds of SetAtrr lines.

Yes, you will get those the first time you "adopt" a tree that was
not created by CVSup itself.

> Assuming it is only setting attributes, I am surprised it takes this
> long.

It involves a lot of disk activity.

> I ran it once more (after having completed the first round),
> but I still see hundreds of SetAttr's. It doesn't look quite
> right for some many of those files to have changed attributes
> (if that's what it means).

For this one, see the CVSup FAQ:

    http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#setattrs

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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