On 2012-01-28, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've run into this problem perhaps a dozen times over the past several >> months while running amd64-current, most recently at 15:53 2012/1/26 EST >> while running a system built from source updated at about 14:30 >> 2012/1/21 EST: when trying to update the xenocara source tree there is a >> very long (perhaps infinite) delay between issuing the 'cvs ...' command >> and the start of any visible activity. In this most recent case the >> delay was about 9 hours. Updating the src and ports source trees at >> about the same time and using the same CVSROOT has always worked OK; >> there's some delay but not a really long one. And sometimes the >> xenocara update has worked without any problem. When it doesn't, 'rm >> -rf /usr/xenocara' followed by reloading from the 5.0-release CD has >> always allowed a subsequent cvs update to work. >> >> The command I'm using is >> # cd /usr/xenocara && cvs -d$CVSROOT -q up -Pd >> (except for the working directory, exactly the same as the command for >> updating the src or ports tree). > > I bet it'll be faster if you don't use the -P or -d options.
If people try this, please don't report any build problems unless you've re-run with both of these options. Also note it's not going to work well for ports..
