Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:29:41 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world error in RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <19970620152941.01199@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <19970620160235.20002@vinyl.quickweb.com>; from Mark Mayo on Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 04:02:35PM -0400 References: <m0wevep-000A41C@TomQNX.tomqnx.com> <26359.866788909@time.cdrom.com> <19970620120938.27122@vinyl.quickweb.com> <199706201913.MAA12625@austin.polstra.com> <19970620160235.20002@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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Mark Mayo scribbled this message on Jun 20: > On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 12:13:55PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > You're certainly not the first person to get bitten by that. CVSup > > in general (exception described below) has the attitude, "If I > > didn't create it, I'm not allowed to delete it." Believe me, users > > get real offended if it behaves any other way. So things work just > > fine if you originally created your tree using CVSup. It knows it > > has the authority and the responsibility to clean up files that > > later get moved or deleted in the master source tree. > > Ok. I get it. That seems reasonable - indeed, good material for the > FAQ. :-) hmmm... maybe also talking about how you can modify $BASEDIR/sup/modulename/checkouts.cvs to force cvsup to think it owns all the files in a tree... I remeber I had VERY similar problems, but I started with a CVS tree instead of the source tree... I probably still have the email from John Polstra about it... :) hope this helps some others too... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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