cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure
Shakul M Hameed
smohideen at mx2.labs.rootshell.ws
Sat Oct 11 15:48:05 UTC 2008
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:41:34AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > > Are you sure? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- see
> > > > the first "Note:" paragraph.
> > >
> > > As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to have a single Code Versioning system.
> > > Several methods put newbies in dilemma to decide upon the best suitable procedure.
> > > I feel there should be one unique source code management system.
> >
> > csup and cvsup function the same, and they both rely on the same source
> > versioning system. However, cvsup requires Modula3/ezm3 (an external
> > dependency), while csup was written entirely in C and comes with the
> > FreeBSD base system.
> >
> > Does this explain the difference?
> >
> > Thus: pkg_delete cvsup and ezm3 (if installed) from your system, and
> > start using csup. :-)
> >
> > > > I don't see how that would fix or change anything. In fact, I'm fairly
> > > > certain it doesn't.
> > > >
> > > > The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you "I tried to rename
> > > > a file, but couldn't". This often implies a permissions or ownership
> > > > thing. Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS
> > > > share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem
> > > > (somehow).
> > >
> > > Jeremy, as pointed by "N.J. Mann" recently in a reply in this thread, there is a semicolon in the filename
> >
> > You mean colon, but I understand what you meant.
> >
> > > where the rename faliure happened. Because the file
> > > "checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7" had ":" in it, which was not created
> > > subsequently due to SMB limitation for ":"-based filenames.
> > >
> > > Because this the cvsup checked-out halted at this point. Morever, as
> > > indicated by "Sean <sean at gothic.net.au>" the case-insensitiveness
> > > would lead to missing files.
> > >
> > > I think, I should format my Network drive to NFS to make it really
> > > UNIX friendly.
> >
> > NFS is a transport protocol, not a filesystem type. You don't "format a
> > disk to be NFS-friendly". You can use NFS with any type of filesystem;
> > UFS/FFS, ZFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, NTFS, MS-DOS, etc...
> >
> > The problem is that you're using an NTFS across smbmount(8). NTFS does
> > not support some characters in filenames, and also is case-insensitive.
> > You are being limited by NTFS, and also possibly by smbmount(8).
> >
> > What you need is to install another disk in your FreeBSD box, or
> > allocate space somewhere on the existing filesystem(s) for your
> > development stuff.
> >
> > If you really want Windows and FreeBSD to "play well" together, your
> > best option is to run Samba on the FreeBSD box and use UFS2 filesystems,
> > then make the Windows machine mount shares from the FreeBSD machine.
> > The other way around (FreeBSD-->Windows) creates problems like the ones
> > you've experienced.
>
> I am never going to do a Windows->FreeBSD mount as it is not required for me.
> I rather go for extra space on my FreeBSD box. Is there any method to increase
> the size of my FreeBSD partition??
>
> Thanks,
> Moin
Never mind. I have dropped the plan for new disk in my freeBSD box. Instead, My Western Digital Network Harddrive
exports both SMB and NFS shares. So now I can mount it as NFS. Internally, this harddrive is ext2 formatted
and the NFS and SMB exports are exported.
> >
> > Hope this helps. Cheers!
> >
> > --
> > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com |
> > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ |
> > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA |
> > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
>
> --
> - Moin
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- Moin
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