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Date:      Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:48:47 +0200
From:      Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info>
Subject:   Re: ZFS pool from current
Message-ID:  <4A393A8F.5000909@restart.be>
In-Reply-To: <1245258026.40309.50.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 16:51 +0200, Henri Hennebert wrote:
>> Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>>> thanks, I was just looking for this update on web interface to cvs and
>>> there is nothing in UPDATING for RELENG_7 there. is this really supposed
>>> to happen ?
>> Sadly a known and ignored problem of cvsweb
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/120185
>>
>> Henri
> 
> As far as I can tell, this isn't really a problem with cvsweb, but more
> of a problem with the repository itself.  The issue comes when a commit
> is made and the log message includes the magic string that CVS uses
> internally to track different revisions.  The patch proposed in that PR
> appears to be more of a hack than a fix.

Ok with that but there is no fix if you base your algorithm on a wrong 
specification.

> 
> It's the same reason that (for example)
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/ntpd lists a revision
> 1.335 even though the most recent commit was version 1.18.

The hack work well in this case too. I prefer a hack instead of a 
confusing answer.

Henri
> 
> On the upside, it doesn't appear that these bogus commits have ended up
> replicated in the SVN repository.
> 
> Gavin
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