Re: bin/46148: cvs(1) broken in NetBSD 6.0_BETA

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/46148; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/46148: cvs(1) broken in NetBSD 6.0_BETA
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:59:46 +0000

 On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 05:55:02PM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/46148; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: bin/46148: cvs(1) broken in NetBSD 6.0_BETA
 > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:52:34 -0500
 > 
 >  On Tue,  6 Mar 2012 17:25:01 +0000 (UTC)
 >  tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost wrote:
 >  
 >  > I've also seen it twice putting "xsrc" into a random sub directory of
 >  > "src" on checkout. Something is really wrong with the updated
 >  > cvs(1) in "netbsd-6".
 >  
 >  I also use netbsd-6/amd64 since a few weeks.
 >  
 >  I didn't test the pserver yet on it, but I also use a local repository
 >  copy and am using it for checkout/updates, however I've not seen any
 >  similar issue so far.  Of course that doesn't mean no issue exists.
 
 Did you try it with something as massive as NetBSD' repository?
 
 >  It would be interesting to know if the odd file-mangling issue you
 >  experience still occurs with an older CVS...
 
 I'm currently running a CVS checkout with a NetBSD 6.0_BETA binary on
 the client side and a NetBSD 5.1_STABLE binary on the server side.
 I'll report how that works out.
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/