cvsup -> down?
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Sep 25 10:24:34 PDT 2003
David Landgren wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
>
>> Hey all.
>>
>> This seems like a really dumb question to me, but I'm having such a rough
>> last two weeks that I'd rather be sure by sounding stupid, than by
>> looking
>> stupid.
>>
>> What I'm doing is upgrading a machine to RELEASE_5_1 (to take care of the
>> recent arp problems) and I wasn't paying attention when I started
>> cvsupping,
>> and accidentally started it cvsupping to HEAD instead. I realized my
>> mistake halfway through and canceled it. Then restarted it with the
>> proper "tag=RELENG_5_1"
>
> I'd throw it all away and start again as you suggest as a second
> alternative.
>
> This assumes you have a set up like I have: one machine that cvsup's
> against an official cvsup host, and then that machine is used the source
> for the rest of the machines. Makes the cvsups go really fast.
No, this machine will be cvsupping directly from a FreeBSD.org mirror,
which is another reason I'd prefer to use what I have if it's safe to
do so.
Thanks for the feedback.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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