On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:34:17 +0200 (CEST) n.reu...@hxgn.net wrote:
> > Nigel J Taylor <ni...@openbsd.org> hat am 3. Juli 2015 um 11:39
> > geschrieben:
> >
> >
> > On 07/03/15 09:33, n.reu...@hxgn.net wrote:
> > > Dear misc,
> > >
> > > i have a script running every night on my openbsd 5.7 -stable box to
> > > fetch
> > > the latest sources from cvs. If some files changed, it will send a
> > > mail.
> > > This morning i got the following output from last nights run:
> > >
> > > ? gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/gas/testsuite/gas/mmix
> > >
> > > Here is the line of code:
> > >
> > > # update system sources
> > > cd /usr/src
> > > /usr/bin/cvs -d ${CVSROOT} -q up -rOPENBSD_5_7 -Pd \
> > > | /usr/bin/tee ${LOG}
> > >
> > > As far as is understand, the testsuite was importet by mistake and
> > > moved
> > > to the attic directly after the import approx. 4 years ago:
> > > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/gas/.
> > > I also don't have the testsuite-folder on my disk.
> > >
> > > Now, is this a problem with cvs or somehow "buggy, but expected"
> > > behaviour? I have ever seen this message before, and i don't see any
> > > activity on binutils in -stable. Or is it safe to filter out line
> > > starting
> > > with '?' ?
> > >
> > > Any insight is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks and best regards
> > > Nils
> > >
> > >
> >
> > From man cvs(1)
> > ? file file is in your working directory, but does not correspond to
> > anything in the source repository, and is not in the list of files for
> > cvs to ignore (see the description of the -I option).
> >
> >
> > $ cd /usr/src/usr.bin/sed
> > $ cvs -R -q up -Pd
> > $ touch extra
> > $ cvs -R -q up -Pd
> > ? extra
> > $ rm extra
> > $ cvs -R -q up -Pd
> > $
> >
>
> Hi Nigel,
>
> thanks for your mail. I should have written my initial mail more
> precisely; i knew that unknown files show up with a '?' (like in svn, git,
> ...), but my point was that the file did not exist on my disk before the
> update, appeared out of nowhere during the update (from the attic i guess)
> and disappeared again (without personally touching anything).
>
> Nils
>
it does seem it was removed quite a while ago (2011). it may just be a stray
bug. what is the result of:
$ ls -ld /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/gas/testsuite/gas/mmix
is it even a directory, and what is the timestamp on it?
