maintaining british traditions

[Geoff Speicher]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:24:25AM +0100, Randy Bush wrote:
> i am visiting the uk and wanted to cvsup.  i ran fastest_cvsup
> and got
> 
> >>  Speed Daemons:
>     - 1st: cvsup4.uk.freebsd.org
>     - 2nd: cvsup.uk.freebsd.org
>     - 3rd: cvsup2.uk.freebsd.org
> 
> so i started fetching from cvsup4.uk.freebsd.org with 
> 
>     *default tag=.
> 
> i was shocked when it started replacing just about everything so
> hit ^C.  look at these lovely dates
> 
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     4735 Sep  5  1999 COPYRIGHT
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     3743 Feb  4  2003 MAINTAINERS
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     9578 Jan 29  2003 Makefile
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    25011 Feb  7  2003 Makefile.inc1
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     9751 Mar 19  2002 Makefile.upgrade
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     2790 Jul 21  2002 README
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    47743 Feb  9  2003 UPDATING
> 
> what is it in particular this time that i do not understand?

You should probably try changing servers, in order to determine whether
it's a problem with the cvsup server or a problem with your config file.

Geoff