Re: building the revivesa branch

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:17:53PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <48790F94.9020208%nimenees.com@localhost>,
> Eric Haszlakiewicz  <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >I just tried building the revivesa branch by
> >cd /usr/src
> >cvs up -dP -rwrstuden-revivesa
> >
> >but that ran into problems with missing directories (src/external and 
> >src/sbin/dhcpd so far).  What's the right way to update to get a working 
> >revivesa source tree?  Should I only update src/sys and src/lib?  Or 
> >should I just wait until it gets merged?
> 
> cvs up -dfP -rwrstuden-revivesa

Note that if anything on HEAD changes to be incompatible with the revisesa
code, you then can't do, for example, "cvs up -D <branch sync date> -dfP";
you're just hosed.  This is because cvs up -D -f -rbranch does not work;
the -D is interpreted relative to the branch not to HEAD and overrides the
magic -f that makes partially-tagged trees work.

This is why branches that tag only part of the tree just plain suck and
should not be used.

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Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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