cvsup fail: Invalid FileAttr.AttrTypes encoding.

2004-09-03 Thread Vonleigh Simmons 
	Running FreeBSD 5.2 Release. Haven't modified anything in the last 
week on the server, yet I'm getting this error when I try to cvsup 
since yesterday. 	The command I'm using is cvsup -g -L 2 
/root/ports-supfile. Here's the last of the output before the error:

 Edit ports/graphics/png/files/patch-ab
  Add delta 1.2 2004.09.03.03.47.14 ache
TreeList failed: Error in /usr/sup/ports-all/checkouts.cvs:.: 64498: 
Invalid FileAttr.AttrTypes encoding.  Delete it and try again.

What exactly is it asking me to delete?
TIA,
Vonleigh Simmons
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Re: cvsup fail: Invalid FileAttr.AttrTypes encoding.

2004-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman 
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:43:34AM -0700, Vonleigh Simmons wrote:

  Edit ports/graphics/png/files/patch-ab
   Add delta 1.2 2004.09.03.03.47.14 ache
 TreeList failed: Error in /usr/sup/ports-all/checkouts.cvs:.: 64498: 
 Invalid FileAttr.AttrTypes encoding.  Delete it and try again.
 
   What exactly is it asking me to delete?

Line 64498 of /usr/sup/ports-all/checkouts.cvs:.

# cd /usr/sup/ports-all/
# sed -i~ -e '64498d' checkouts.cvs:.

Then re-run cvsup, and it will replace the missing line with the
correct data.

Failing that, you can delete or move aside the whole
/usr/sup/ports-all/checkouts.cvs:. file.  The checkouts files are used
solely for bookkeeping, and as the manual says, cvsup can cope
without, although it makes the cvsup process rather less
efficient. See the section 'THE LIST FILE' in cvsup(1)

 The list file is not strictly necessary.  If it is deleted, or becomes
 inconsistent with the actual client files, cvsup falls back upon a less
 efficient method of identifying the client's files and performing its
 updates.  Depending on CVSup's mode of operation, the fallback method
 employs time stamps, checksums, or analysis of RCS files.

Cheers,

Matthew

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