John Polstra wrote:
[My silly speculation about cvs lockfiles and cvsup deleted]
> I think you may be misinterpreting the symptoms,
That's entirely possible.
> because I don't know
> of any way for lock files to propagate off of freefall with CVSup.
> All lock files are specifically excluded in the server's config files
> -- they won't even make it to cvsup-master, let alone to the mirrors
> such as cvsupN.freebsd.org. What were the names of the files you
> thought were lock files? It sounds to me like maybe they were created
> by something on your local system -- not mirrored via CVSup.
Well, I don't make any commits to this cvs tree, only checkouts.
Unfortunately I didn't save the filename of any of the really
incriminating files. The one that killed my checkout was a directory in
src/games/primes. I also found these files in the logs
I did keep, from the /usr/src that was checked out with cvsup, not cvs:
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 7.0k Mar 22 09:55 .#Makefile.1.232
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 23k Mar 8 22:28
.#Makefile.inc1.1.120
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 24k Mar 24 12:21 .#UPDATING.1.58
I also found this file in my CVSROOT on one of my repositories:
./sup/src-all/#cvs.cvsup-749.0
It's actually dated March 24 1998, which predates the creation of this
repository. Hrrrmm....
Aha! Part of the mystery solved at least. I started this repository
from the snapshot CD dated 7/5/99. I just untarred that repository
snapshot into a new directory and found the above file, and the lock
directory I mentioned earlier:
drwxr-x--- 2 doug wheel 512 Jul 30 1999
./src/games/primes/#cvs.rfl.scratch1.cdrom.com.381
-rw-r----- 1 doug wheel 2.0M Mar 24 1998
./sup/src-all/#cvs.cvsup-749.0
In any case, my purpose for posting was to notify the PTB in case there
was a problem. If anyone is qualified to state categorically that there
is no problem it's probably you. :) The actual lock directory above was
my chief concern, and now that I know I didn't inherit it from cvsup,
I'm happy. Thanks for taking the time to help me learn...
Doug
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