cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

[Shakul M Hameed]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:41:34AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > > Are you sure?  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- see
> > > > the first "Note:" paragraph. 
> > > 
> > >  As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to have a single Code Versioning system.  
> > >  Several methods put newbies in dilemma to decide upon the best suitable procedure. 
> > >  I feel there should be one unique source code management system.
> > 
> > csup and cvsup function the same, and they both rely on the same source
> > versioning system.  However, cvsup requires Modula3/ezm3 (an external
> > dependency), while csup was written entirely in C and comes with the
> > FreeBSD base system.
> > 
> > Does this explain the difference?
> > 
> > Thus: pkg_delete cvsup and ezm3 (if installed) from your system, and
> > start using csup.  :-)
> > 
> > > > I don't see how that would fix or change anything.  In fact, I'm fairly
> > > > certain it doesn't.
> > > > 
> > > > The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you "I tried to rename
> > > > a file, but couldn't".  This often implies a permissions or ownership
> > > > thing.  Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS
> > > > share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem
> > > > (somehow).
> > > 
> > >  Jeremy, as pointed by "N.J. Mann"  recently in a reply in this thread, there is a semicolon in the filename
> > 
> > You mean colon, but I understand what you meant.
> > 
> > >  where the rename faliure happened. Because the file
> > >  "checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7" had ":" in it, which was not created
> > >  subsequently due to SMB limitation for ":"-based filenames.  
> > >
> > >  Because this the cvsup checked-out halted at this point. Morever, as
> > >  indicated by "Sean <sean at gothic.net.au>" the case-insensitiveness
> > >  would lead to missing files. 
> > >
> > > I think, I should format my Network drive to NFS to make it really
> > > UNIX friendly.
> > 
> > NFS is a transport protocol, not a filesystem type.  You don't "format a
> > disk to be NFS-friendly".  You can use NFS with any type of filesystem;
> > UFS/FFS, ZFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, NTFS, MS-DOS, etc...
> > 
> > The problem is that you're using an NTFS across smbmount(8).  NTFS does
> > not support some characters in filenames, and also is case-insensitive.
> > You are being limited by NTFS, and also possibly by smbmount(8).
> > 
> > What you need is to install another disk in your FreeBSD box, or
> > allocate space somewhere on the existing filesystem(s) for your
> > development stuff.
> > 
> > If you really want Windows and FreeBSD to "play well" together, your
> > best option is to run Samba on the FreeBSD box and use UFS2 filesystems,
> > then make the Windows machine mount shares from the FreeBSD machine.
> > The other way around (FreeBSD-->Windows) creates problems like the ones
> > you've experienced.
> 
>  I am never going to do a Windows->FreeBSD mount as it is not required for me.
>  I rather go for extra space on my FreeBSD box. Is there any method to increase
>  the size of my FreeBSD partition??  
> 
>  Thanks,
>         Moin
Never mind. I have dropped the plan for new disk in my freeBSD box. Instead, My Western Digital Network Harddrive 
exports both SMB and NFS shares. So now I can mount it as NFS. Internally, this harddrive is ext2 formatted
and the NFS and SMB exports are exported. 

> > 
> > Hope this helps.  Cheers!
> > 
> > -- 
> > | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
> > | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
> > | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
> > | Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
> 
> -- 
>     - Moin

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