On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote:

> src/TODO-2.1, src/usr.sbin/xntpd, etc. There were a large number in
> contrib, probably detritus from imports, etc. I'm not sure if this is
> significant, it obviously doesn't do any harm. I just thought I'd
> mention it.

CVS has no concept of removing a directory (possibly excepting repository
surgery), so unless you pass the -P option (prune empty directories) you
get stuck with all of the old ones.

>       Slightly more serious was the presence of various lock
> files/directories. Specifically, one in src/games/primes killed my co as
> an unpriviliged user because it was set 700 and owned by root. The co
> failed because it couldn't create a lock file. I did a 'find . -name
> \*\#\* in my CVSROOT and found several other files like this. Deleting
> them did no harm, and they didn't return when I ran cvsup again. 

I havent seen this.

>       Finally, a question. I'm doing my cvs co/update on this machine
> remotely via rsh (within our secure network of course). When I start the
> update it creates an entire src directory tree in /tmp. This takes a
> great deal of time, so I'm wondering if this can be avoided somehow? I'm
> doing the cvs rsh as root on the client machine, and as an unpriviliged
> user on the cvs server machine. 

I ran into this the other day and was advised to mount the CVS repository
via NFS instead of accessing it via rsh. This indeed solves the problem.

Kris

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