Re: cross-build failure

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:43 PM -0700 10/26/04, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> : Is it bad news to be cvsupping a tag (either . or DragonFly_Stable)
> : directly into /dfly/usr/ rather than cvsupping the CVS/RCS files
> : (into /home/dcvs, say) and cvs co/updating from there?
> :
> : What is the difference?
> :
> :- David
>
>     Theoretically cvsupping a tag should work, but the question is
>     whether cvsup will 'do the right thing' with the file deletions.
>     Either it does or it doesn't.

cvsup should handle that without any trouble.  I used to always
cvsup directly into /usr/src, and in fact I still do that on my
freebsd/sparc64 machine (because it is too low on disk space to
keep a copy of the cvs repository).

I prefer to use cvsup to download the entire repository, so I have
all of it locally if I want to pull out specific revisions of a
file.  I think it is well worth the disk space (and it certainly
does require more disk space to do it that way).

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