On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 05:20, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The only thing I was thinking of was that there might be
> links or something else not obvious that would make the restored
> /usr/src useless.
The best option if you loose your /usr/src is not to cvsup from scratch, but
to install the so
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Martin McCormick wrote:
> If one uses an incorrect tag in cvsup, it tends to
> destroy the /usr/src tree, a sort of make zapworld. Would there
> be anything wrong with backing up the /usr/src directory to a tar
> file before running cvsup so that if the worst happens, o
Can't think of anything offhand. However, using an incorrect tag
is not a great problem, IMO, because generally there's nothing
under /usr/src that can't be replaced by fixing the supfile and
running
cvsup again. I have on several occasions just done this:
$cd /usr
$rm -rf src
$cvsup /stable-su
On 2002-10-08 12:39, Adam Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> (10.08.2002 @ 1220 PST): Martin McCormick said, in 0.8K: <<
> > If one uses an incorrect tag in cvsup, it tends to
> > destroy the /usr/src tree, a sort of make zapworld. Would there
> > be anything wrong with backing up the
My thanks to the person who informed me that running
cvsup with the correct tag would repair the damage.
Martin McCormick
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>> (10.08.2002 @ 1220 PST): Martin McCormick said, in 0.8K: <<
> If one uses an incorrect tag in cvsup, it tends to
> destroy the /usr/src tree, a sort of make zapworld. Would there
> be anything wrong with backing up the /usr/src directory to a tar
> file before running cvsup so that if th
