On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:22:27PM -0500, Andrey Shuvikov wrote: > On 1/9/07, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The checkout from ports always spend quite some time at the end. > >It comes from the way cvs works: creates every directory, then > >prunes them at the end. > > > >Something in your network path is unhappy that you spend long enough > >not doing enough, from its point of view... > > Thanks, that was the case. When I try to update without pruning empty > directories (-P flag) it exits normally. Hopefully, empty directories > won't break the build process.
They will - for instance, src/games/snake/snake messes up the build process. For another, somewhat more clean non-solution, see ssh_config(5), and have a look at such options as 'ServerAliveInterval'. Joachim