Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:34:13 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Andre Goeree <abgoeree@uwnet.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ's (was: Makeworld is dying...) Message-ID: <20000924003413.A2018@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20000924092354.A473@freebee.attica.home>; from abgoeree@uwnet.nl on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 09:23:54AM %2B0000 References: <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>
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On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0000, Andre Goeree wrote: > I think a lot of people start cvsuppin' without checking out > their source tree against the known version of code they have. > ie. if you have 4.0-R, cvsup with tag RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE once > and then track RELENG_4. > > Omitting this step could lead to (if you cvsup from 4.0-R for example) > a lot of inconsistencies, stale files that should have been > deleted, etc in the source tree which could cause problems > in (future) buildworlds. Ok, i'm not an expert but that's my > personal experience.. > > Unfortunately a lot of people (including me) only start reading > the FAQ's when they get in trouble.. so a hint (ie. read this first..) > in the right place could prevent this kind of trouble. > > Then again, i could be totally wrong about this, i'm no expert. This is just plain wrong. If you can actually duplicate this problem I'm sure John Polstra (jdp@FreeBSD.org) would love to hear about it, but that's certaintly not the way CVSup or CVS is supposed to work. There's really nothing special about RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE vs RELENG_4 since RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE is just a snapshot in time on the RELENG_4 branch. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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