Subject: Re: build fails: /usr/src/usr.sbin/raccoon "rm error"
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: current-users
Date: 03/07/2005 23:07:16
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:45:12AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>> Funny thing. For me, a cvs update with prune neither removed the
>> directory, nor complained that it shouldn't be there any more, nor
>> complained that something outside cvs.
>> I had to manually remove it and do a cvs update before things were
>> correct. I have no idea why it behaved this way, but it wasn't what I
>> expected...
>>
>> (And I did try it repetedly, just because I expected cvs to remove it.)
>
> Did you notice any "? foo" lines at the starting of the CVS output? Every
> time I have a directory CVS wants to delete that has lingering stuff in
> it, I've gotten lines like that at the very beginning of the update.

No, I did not have any '? foo' lines at the start, which was also 
something I was looking for.
Thos are actually just files in directories checkout from cvs, where the 
files aren't in cvs. Basically unknown files from a cvs point of view, in 
directories that cvs knows about.
But yes, if you have a directory that should have been removed, but in 
which you have placed files of your own, you should get those '? foo' 
lines. Maybe symlinks don't trigger it...

 	Johnny

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