On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Tim Judd <taj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having quite the issue with a cvsup-mirror install (1.3_8) here.  It
> seems to be keeping some meta information file somewhere and has FAILED to
> give me a local mirror (not one to be publicly available) yet.
>
>
> Being the stubborn person I am, I have multiple times cleared some and all
> of the following to try to resolve the problem...
>
> /usr/local/etc/cvsup
> the package itself
> /home/ncvs
> /home/cvsupin
> /usr/ports/ports/net/cvsup-mirror
>
>
>
> And each time it takes ~5 hours to download 1.5GB of data in /home/ncvs
> then a client connecting to itself fails to work.  Latest problem is
>
> -- Quote
> Server warning: Cannot open
> "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/gnu/lib/libgmp/mpz/get_si.c,v":
> No such file or directory
> Server warning: Cannot open
> "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/gnu/lib/libgmp/mpz/get_str.c,v":
> No such file or directory
> Server warning: Cannot open
> "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/gnu/lib/libgmp/mpz/get_ui.c,v":
> No such file or directory
> Server warning: Cannot open
> "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/gnu/lib/libgmp/mpz/getlimbn.c,v":
> No such file or directory
> -- /Quote
>
> It's just a snippet..  It can't find ANYTHING.
>
> Other problems included the inability to even select the src-all/cvs or
> ports-all/cvs (trees? branches?) in the server, yet it has 1.5GB downloaded.
>
> What'd help me to learn what's wrong is the line in config.sh as below:
> distribs="distrib.self .. . FreeBSD.cvs /home/ncvs . FreeBSD-www.current
> SKIP . FreeBSD-gnats.current SKIP gnats FreeBSD-mail.current SKIP ."
>
> My guess is it names a distribution and puts a directory it stores the
> files into in the next argument, separated by space.  Next distribution is
> named and it's directory it stores the files into as the next one past that,
> with all distributions separated by a single period.
>
> Then the word 'gnats' throws me off because I .....  don't know what the
> heck it's there for..  is the '.' an alias instead to the first item in the
> line, meaning it's a tuple?
> (distrib storedir alias)...
>
>
>
> What throws me off is that the /usr/local/etc/cvsup directory was tarred up
> from a working mirror and copied here and let the update.sh run for 5 hours,
> to come to the above quoted warnings (but I'm treating them as errors).  The
> working system has about 4GB in /home/ncvs that works for me, but this one
> can't get past 1.5GB.  Working system has been working beautifully for
> several months (6?)..  so maybe it's just collective.
>
>
> I really would like to get a bearing on cvsup-mirror, but have no clue what
> to google or read to find out some of the troubleshooting guides.
>
>
>
> --Tim
>


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