Subject: Re: misc/15797: Lack of CVSROOT/options file foils CVSup $NetBSD$ expansion
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/04/2002 13:59:00
[ On Monday, March 4, 2002 at 08:27:05 (+0100), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: misc/15797: Lack of CVSROOT/options file foils CVSup $NetBSD$ expansion
>
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:16:47PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Sunday, March 3, 2002 at 23:42:39 (+0100), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: misc/15797: Lack of CVSROOT/options file foils CVSup $NetBSD$ expansion
> > >
> > > Well, unfortunably the CVSROOT is *not* propagated to mirrors; each mirror
> > > maintain their own CVSROOT.
> > 
> > That's really bogus.  The files in the CVSROOT directory are the very
> > core and most necessary part of any CVS repository!  These files really
> > should all be shipped with replicas of the repository, even if such
> > replicas are intended to be read-only!
> 
> And how do you deal with mirrors that mirror other repositories than
> the NetBSD one ?

Huh?  There is no problem to deal with.  Provided you have the available
disk space you could have a thousand million repositories on the same
machine with no problem -- they would all, by definition, have unique
pathname prefixes since that is what makes them unique.

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