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

[Mark Russell]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Richard Coleman wrote:

> 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

this was changed to /var/sup by default ages ago


> 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.

I just tried it on the box with -rw access, the INDEX-5 file got trashed 
again, INDEX hasn't been allowed to be written due to -ro access

Why was this done in the first place anyway?


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