[ On Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at 17:50:33 (+0200), Brad Knowles wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 1.5.2 to -current?
>
> At 1:13 PM -0400 2002/04/22, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> >  I would suggest that if you have good network connectivity to a
> >  not-too-busy anon-CVS server then you should just check out a complete
> >  tree from scratch using CVS only.
> 
> 	That was one of the first things I tried, but it bombed -- Todd 
> rightly pointed out that I wasn't getting a /usr/src/share directory, 
> and this was keeping the build process from really getting started at 
> all.

Unfortunately when you're using module aliases in the way we do with the
NetBSD repository it's critical to start from scratch any time a
checkout fails in the middle somewhere (unless you know exactly how to
verify its integrity and fill in any missing bits).  That's something
that really should be documented too I guess...

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