HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS.

[Richard Coleman]

Mark Russell wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Richard Coleman wrote:
>>> please back this out, it breaks things, I've never found an out of
>>> date index to be a problem, now not havign an index is causing
>>> problems, also the extra bandwidth for fetch index is a hassle.
>>>
>>> at least let the issue be discused on the list.
>>
>>
>> Just change your cvsup script to rebuild INDEX[-5] afterwards.  That's 
>> what I do.  The change is fine with me.
> 
> on trees that are mounted -ro this barfs, on my p120 which does my 
> personal mail and updates virus defs every 2 hours its dead in the water.

I haven't tried it, but you can probably just edit out the lines 
concerning INDEX[-5] in /usr/sup/ports-all/checkout file.  Once cvsup 
believes it didn't create the file, it won't delete it.  The same will 
also be true if you rebuild INDEX[-5] after cvsup has deleted it the 
first time.  It shouldn't delete it a second time (since it didn't 
install the file).  Then you can rebuild a new INDEX[-5] when you desire.

Richard Coleman
rcoleman at criticalmagic.com