> Nigel J Taylor <[email protected]> hat am 3. Juli 2015 um 11:39 > geschrieben: > > > On 07/03/15 09:33, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear misc, > > > > i have a script running every night on my openbsd 5.7 -stable box to > > fetch > > the latest sources from cvs. If some files changed, it will send a > > mail. > > This morning i got the following output from last nights run: > > > > ? gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/gas/testsuite/gas/mmix > > > > Here is the line of code: > > > > # update system sources > > cd /usr/src > > /usr/bin/cvs -d ${CVSROOT} -q up -rOPENBSD_5_7 -Pd \ > > | /usr/bin/tee ${LOG} > > > > As far as is understand, the testsuite was importet by mistake and > > moved > > to the attic directly after the import approx. 4 years ago: > > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/gas/. > > I also don't have the testsuite-folder on my disk. > > > > Now, is this a problem with cvs or somehow "buggy, but expected" > > behaviour? I have ever seen this message before, and i don't see any > > activity on binutils in -stable. Or is it safe to filter out line > > starting > > with '?' ? > > > > Any insight is greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks and best regards > > Nils > > > > > > From man cvs(1) > ? file file is in your working directory, but does not correspond to > anything in the source repository, and is not in the list of files for > cvs to ignore (see the description of the -I option). > > > $ cd /usr/src/usr.bin/sed > $ cvs -R -q up -Pd > $ touch extra > $ cvs -R -q up -Pd > ? extra > $ rm extra > $ cvs -R -q up -Pd > $ >
Hi Nigel, thanks for your mail. I should have written my initial mail more precisely; i knew that unknown files show up with a '?' (like in svn, git, ...), but my point was that the file did not exist on my disk before the update, appeared out of nowhere during the update (from the attic i guess) and disappeared again (without personally touching anything). Nils
