On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Are you sure? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- > > see > > the first "Note:" paragraph. > > As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to have a single Code Versioning > system. > Several methods put newbies in dilemma to decide upon the best suitable > procedure. > I feel there should be one unique source code management system.
csup and cvsup function the same, and they both rely on the same source versioning system. However, cvsup requires Modula3/ezm3 (an external dependency), while csup was written entirely in C and comes with the FreeBSD base system. Does this explain the difference? Thus: pkg_delete cvsup and ezm3 (if installed) from your system, and start using csup. :-) > > I don't see how that would fix or change anything. In fact, I'm fairly > > certain it doesn't. > > > > The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you "I tried to rename > > a file, but couldn't". This often implies a permissions or ownership > > thing. Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS > > share, I cannot help but wonder if that's the cause of the problem > > (somehow). > > Jeremy, as pointed by "N.J. Mann" recently in a reply in this thread, there > is a semicolon in the filename You mean colon, but I understand what you meant. > where the rename faliure happened. Because the file > "checkouts.cvs:RELENG_7" had ":" in it, which was not created > subsequently due to SMB limitation for ":"-based filenames. > > Because this the cvsup checked-out halted at this point. Morever, as > indicated by "Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" the case-insensitiveness > would lead to missing files. > > I think, I should format my Network drive to NFS to make it really > UNIX friendly. NFS is a transport protocol, not a filesystem type. You don't "format a disk to be NFS-friendly". You can use NFS with any type of filesystem; UFS/FFS, ZFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, NTFS, MS-DOS, etc... The problem is that you're using an NTFS across smbmount(8). NTFS does not support some characters in filenames, and also is case-insensitive. You are being limited by NTFS, and also possibly by smbmount(8). What you need is to install another disk in your FreeBSD box, or allocate space somewhere on the existing filesystem(s) for your development stuff. If you really want Windows and FreeBSD to "play well" together, your best option is to run Samba on the FreeBSD box and use UFS2 filesystems, then make the Windows machine mount shares from the FreeBSD machine. The other way around (FreeBSD-->Windows) creates problems like the ones you've experienced. Hope this helps. Cheers! -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
