Problems with cvsup on FreeBSD 9, AMD64, osreldate: 900038

[Vassilis Laganakos]

On 03/07/2011 04:25, jhell wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 04:33:39PM +0100, Vassilis Laganakos wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am facing the same problems as Holger here:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-June/025205.html
>>
>> although CVSup dies in gmtime_r in libc.so.7:
>>
>>       ...
>>       Updating collection src-all/cvs
>>       Edit src/UPDATING
>>
>>       Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>       0x000000002ca10fb9 in gmtime_r () from /lib/libc.so.7
>>       ...
>>
>> See full gdb backtrace at:
>>
>>       http://www.pastie.org/pastes/2154271
>>
>> So I'm now stuck in osrel 900038... I guess I need to rebuild libc.so.7
>> with debugging symbols to find out what is going wrong there.
>>
>> Any quick ideas on how to correct this, or if someone else is seeing
>> this issue?
>>
>
> Use csup(1) in base. This is in 7, 8&  9. cvsup has been deprecated for
> much longer than it really needed to be and should probably be removed
> from use as a client entirely and links generated for installation of
> cvsup ->  csup.
>
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. csup worked sweet, thanks! So I'll remove 
the cvsup port and switch to using csup.

> Only drawback for you may be no X interface but it really was not that
> pretty in the first place and served no real good purpose over the
> functionality of the command line client.
>
> An alternative if you need and X interface is creating a icon on your
> desktop that runs ( xterm -e csup /path/to/supfile ) or something
> similiar.
Ok. I haven't been using the X interface, and I agree it hasn't been 
that great.

Thanks for the information!

Vassilis L.