In the last episode (May 21), Wilko Bulte said:
> Is there any specific reason why one needs to be able to write a lock
> to the CVS repo when running 'make update' to get a freshly checked
> out source?
> The Makefile.inc1 has:
> 
> .if defined(CVS_UPDATE)
>       cd ${.CURDIR}; cvs -q update -A -P -d
> .endif
> 
> In other words, would adding '-R' hurt?

If you are accessing a local CVS repo that you have updated via cvsup,
no.  But if you are accessing something on freefall directly, I think
you need the locking just in case someone is committing at the same
time.

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        Dan Nelson
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