Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/*
John Polstra wrote: When you change the tag (e.g., go from -stable to -current or vice versa), it's a special case. Thanks, I'll remember that. -- Marcel Moolenaarmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCC Internetworking Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD projectmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Cleaning house on /usr/src/*
In the course of development of -current, a bunch of directories are added and taken away from /usr/src. So, about every month or so, I like to clean out /usr/src/* and start from scratch. (Well, you know, sometimes you have so much of your own old code in there.) What is the best way to refresh /usr/src then? Do I do an ftp of the current src at current.freebsd.org, or is it OK to cvsup from scratch from cvsup[n].freebsd.org? Someone told me it puts too big of a load on the cvs servers by checking out the whole tree from scratch like this. I would say it actually puts a lighter load on the cvsup servers, because there's no files on your machine to compare the tree with. So, you're basically trading bandwidth for load. So, what's the best way to "clean house"? Of course, I only do this once a month or so if even that. I normally cvsup every 1 or 2 days, but you know, every once in a while you've got to clean out the /usr/src because of all the junk directories. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/*
On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:16:45 EST, Donn Miller wrote: In the course of development of -current, a bunch of directories are added and taken away from /usr/src. So, about every month or so, I like to clean out /usr/src/* and start from scratch. (Well, you know, sometimes you have so much of your own old code in there.) The best way to do this is to use CVS as your means of updating the source tree and capture its output to some logfile. On inspection of the logfile, you'll see at a glance those files that can be deleted. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/*
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Donn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the course of development of -current, a bunch of directories are added and taken away from /usr/src. So, about every month or so, I like to clean out /usr/src/* and start from scratch. (Well, you know, sometimes you have so much of your own old code in there.) What is the best way to refresh /usr/src then? Do I do an ftp of the current src at current.freebsd.org, or is it OK to cvsup from scratch from cvsup[n].freebsd.org? Someone told me it puts too big of a load on the cvs servers by checking out the whole tree from scratch like this. I would say it actually puts a lighter load on the cvsup servers, because there's no files on your machine to compare the tree with. So, you're basically trading bandwidth for load. You are right. If you're building a src tree from scratch, it's "cheaper" to CVSup from scratch. The CVSup mirror sites generally have more of a bandwidth surplus than a CPU surplus. Besides, if you FTP a snapshot first, that in itself uses a lot of bandwidth. So, what's the best way to "clean house"? Of course, I only do this once a month or so if even that. I normally cvsup every 1 or 2 days, but you know, every once in a while you've got to clean out the /usr/src because of all the junk directories. Why are you getting these junk directories? CVSup should be deleting them if they're empty. You really shouldn't need to wipe out your tree and start over -- not ever. Did you omit the "delete" keyword from your supfile? John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."-- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/*
John Polstra wrote: Why are you getting these junk directories? CVSup should be deleting them if they're empty. You really shouldn't need to wipe out your tree and start over -- not ever. Did you omit the "delete" keyword from your supfile? I recently (last week) cvsup'd a -current source tree over a -stable source tree with the assumption that cvsup would sort it all out. I found out that cvsup doesn't (always?) remove files that are no longer pertinent. This is with the delete keyword present. The -current build broke because there were leftover files (/usr/obj has been removed first). The breakage was solved by removing /usr/src and recvsup-ing from scratch. Details follow... BTW: The files in question were at a minimum /sys/netinet/altq_*.h dwarf% cvsup -v CVSup client, GUI version Software version: REL_15_4 Protocol version: 15.5 Report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] dwarf% more /etc/cvsup.conf *defaultrelease=cvs tag=. *defaultprefix=/usr *defaultbase=/usr *defaultdelete use-rel-suffix *defaulthost=cvsup4.freebsd.org ... dwarf% uname -a FreeBSD dwarf.hq.scc.nl 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 27 06:10:18 CEST 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/DWARF i386 -- Marcel Moolenaarmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCC Internetworking Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD projectmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/*
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Polstra wrote: Why are you getting these junk directories? CVSup should be deleting them if they're empty. You really shouldn't need to wipe out your tree and start over -- not ever. Did you omit the "delete" keyword from your supfile? I recently (last week) cvsup'd a -current source tree over a -stable source tree with the assumption that cvsup would sort it all out. I found out that cvsup doesn't (always?) remove files that are no longer pertinent. This is with the delete keyword present. When you change the tag (e.g., go from -stable to -current or vice versa), it's a special case. That's because the "checkouts" file (which CVSup uses to decide which files to delete) contains the tag as part of its name. In the future I may recommend omitting the "use-rel-suffix" option in order to avoid this problem. Meanwhile, the CVSup FAQ has some advice about it in questions 11-13: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/ If for whatever reason you do think you have some extra files, there's a script "cvsupchk" in the contrib subdirectory of the CVSup distribution which will find them for you and delete them. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."-- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
