cvsup strangeness

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:22:51 -0500
"fbsd_user" <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> There was an problem with cvsup and Y2K about number of seconds in
> year that caused your problem in the new century. Get both boxes at
> the same current version of cvsup-without-gui and they will perform
> the same.  This is real old history, that why nobody replied to your
> original post.  

But it is the latest:
>/home/itetcu/tmp/tmp2# portversion -v 'cvsup*'
cvsup-16.1h                 =  up-to-date with port

>> On the problem machine (4.7) it was installed cvsup-without-gui; now
>> that I've deinstalled and installed cvsup it outputs OK (e.g.
>> without
>> `,v'), with the same cvsup config file.

It seems that the change did not solve the problem, as now I'm getting
`,v' agin.


> You really need to get your FBSD environment updated
> to the current 4.9 stable production release.

I will, when I will be convinced vinum and a few custom tricks I've did
will not won't break. It is an internal machine.

> There is an 5.3 release waiting to be released but it still is to
> unreliable. I would not go to any of the 5.x versions as an new file
> system is used and there are reports of an file system lockout under
> heave loads.  

Yes, I know, I'm writing from a current box.

> Even if they release 5.3 stable, it is not stable yet
> and will go through some sub-releases like 4.8 did.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ion-Mihai
> Tetcu
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:51 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: cvsup strangeness
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> A while ago I've posted :
> 
> >  I have 2 identical (copy/paste) ports-supfiles on two machines:
> >
> >  it# grep -v '#' /etc/ports-supfile
> >  *default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org
> >  *default base=/usr
> >  *default prefix=/usr
> >  *default release=cvs tag=.
> >  *default delete use-rel-suffix
> >  *default compress
> >  ports-all
> >
> >  one is produceing :
> >  Updating collection ports-all/cvs
> >   Edit ports/audio/abcmidi/Makefile
> >   Edit ports/audio/abcmidi/distinfo
> >  ...
> >
> >  The other:
> >  Updating collection ports-all/cvs
> >   Edit ports/mail/perdition/pkg-plist
> >   Edit ports/math/R-letter/Makefile
> >   SetAttrs ports/math/p5-Statistics-Distributions/Makefile,v
> >   SetAttrs ports/math/p5-Statistics-Distributions/distinfo,v
> >  ...
> >
> >  I run it like:
> >  # cvsup -g /etc/ports-supfile on both machines.
> >
> >  The stupid question:
> >  why on the second I have the `,v' suffix ?
> 
> On the problem machine (4.7) it was installed cvsup-without-gui; now
> that I've deinstalled and installed cvsup it outputs OK (e.g.
> without
> `,v'), with the same cvsup config file.
> 
> I wonder if:
> 1. anyone can reproduce this.
> 2. if 1. is it a bug or a feature.
> 
> 
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