maintaining british traditions

[Randy Bush]

>> 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.

oh, i immediately went back to cvsup10 and everything worked just
fine.

randy