HEADSUP: CVS/Mirror mode for csup to be merged soon

[Ulf Lilleengen]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:52:03PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
> 
> UL> Hello,
> UL> 
> UL> After some feedback on previous patches and some adjustments, I think the
> UL> CVSMode for csup project have come to a place where a wider testing audience
> UL> is needed, and I would like to make this a call for review and a HEADSUP to
> UL> allow willing reviewers and eventual protesters to give their opinion before
> UL> merging this to HEAD. A few things about the current state of CVSMode:
> UL> 
> UL> - Complete CVS mode (mirror mode) is supported, allowing the whole CVS
> UL>   repository to be fetched by csup.
> UL> - rsync fetch supported if not explicitly not wanted by user or not supported
> UL>   by server.
> UL> - Support using the status file to speed up detailing of files. This means no
> UL>   bigger inpact on files that are up to date.
> UL> 
> UL> For the state of the code itself, I have went over it a couple of times the
> UL> last couple of days, fixing style issues and a few differences between cvsup
> UL> and csup. One important thing to note is that the impact on the existing csup
> UL> operation is _minimal_, so that the risk of introducing bugs to the normal
> UL> csup operation is very small, and because of this I see no problems with
> UL> committing the current version. If you find any issues, please e-mail me, and
> UL> I will look at it.
> UL> 
> UL> So, for those of you wanting to test, please do so now. If people are okay
> UL> with this, I would like to merge it by the end of the week/early next week.
> UL> 
> UL> A patch can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~lulf/csup_cvsmode.diff
> UL> or you can just do a checkout of projects/csup_cvsmode
> 
> Just to make sure it does not get lost:
> 
> After creating RELENG_7_1 branch csupping is broken with:
> 
> 
> Updating collection src-all/cvs
>  Edit src/bin/chio/chio.c,v
> /home/ncvs/src/bin/chio/chio.c,v: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire 
> file
>  Edit src/contrib/bind9/CHANGES,v
> /home/ncvs/src/contrib/bind9/CHANGES,v: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer 
> entire file
>  Edit src/contrib/bind9/COPYRIGHT,v
> 
> ... [a lot of them] .. and finally
> 
> /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES,v: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire 
> file
>  Edit src/sys/i386/conf/PAE,v
> Error applying diff: -1
> Updater failed: Protocol error
> Error is 'Detailer failed: Premature EOF from server'
> 
> I use RELENG_7 csup with your previous patch version
> 
The previous patch will break, and the issue should be fixed in the latest
version.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen
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