Subject: Re: Is anoncvs messed up?
To: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
From: Peter Varga <peter.varga@screaminet.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/08/2002 13:51:28
Think of the problem: getting the source.

Take a tarball via ftp. :-)  ... and see if that helps.

Peter

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:59:12AM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> > So, you are not alone, and thanks for confirming for me that the
> > problems aren't with the mirror I leech off of, but rather upstream
> > on the anoncvs machine from which it pulls.
> 
> Okay, good to know that it's not a problem on my side, at least.
> 
> > 
> > I have another corrupt file I quoted from earlier, which apparently
> > is corrupt on the site I use, perhaps also on anoncvs, that b0rked my
> > build yesterday, and which hasn't been updated today to be correct.
> > Would you care to take a look at your basesrc/usr.sbin/makefs/ffs/mkfs.c
> > file and tell me if you find a line some 180 lines into it like
> > statectors/track including spares */
> > within it?  That will tell me if the file is equally corrupt on anoncvs,
> > or whether it's getting corrupted in the mirroring process, or somewhere
> > else...
> > 
> 
> Right now I'm trying a fresh checkout of src (i rm -r'd it to see if getting
> a new one would help) and have not gotten to usr.sbin/... yet, but when I
> have, I'll take a look and let you know.
> 
> Thanks much for the response.
> 
> > 
> > thanks
> > barry bouwsma
> > 
> 
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