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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:35:45PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 10:17 PM +0100 1/12/05, Anton Berezin wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 12, 2005, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 2:53 PM +0100 1/12/05, Anton Berezin wrote: > > > > > >> >A new option is added: > >> > > >> > -R cvsroot For files that contain a $FreeBSD$ string, > > > > >> Hmm. I'm not sure how useful this will be (not that I object > > > to it in anyway, I'm just not sure...). > > > >A single, probably not very useful datapoint: install 5.3-RELEASE, > >cvsup to RELENG_5, {build,install}{world,kernel}, then do mergemaster. > >This currently leads to about 20 cases of "pointless diffs", all of > >which go away when using this option. > > I understand the desired goal. I'm just not sure that this > option will be generally useful. > > >If a concern is that only a minority of machines have /home/ncvs > >installed, then the answer would be that "cvsroot" is a generic > >string, which can be anything cvs -d accepts, meaning that > >various :pserver: and :ext:-based solutions shall work. > > If a user is following the rules for upgrading, then the really > important mergemaster run is done in single-user mode. You do > not have networking, you do not have NFS, you do not even have the > any value set for `hostname`. Thus, if that user does not have > the cvs repository on their local hard disk, then this option will > require several additional steps (and those steps may not be > convenient, particularly for someone who gets their network > address via DHCP). Given the existance of /etc/netstart, I don't think this is a big deal. In any case, there is rairly a need to actually do mergemaster in single user mode except on production servers. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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