Doug Barton wrote: > Andreas Tobler wrote: >> Hm, then it seems to me that I did something 'wrong' when I co'ed the >> svn repository. I am an anonymous user, aka having no svn account. > > You're not using the devel/subversion-freebsd port. Aha! I was using plain svn 1.5.5.1. Thanks! Now I'm using it and I have what I need. # $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/atm/Makefile 121666 2003-10-29 10:30:54Z harti $ >> This how I co'ed the repo: >> >> svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head src > > I just tested that with the subversion-freebsd version, and it worked > just fine. > >> Well, in my case I did type 'i' many times and now I am happy with a 2 >> hour install/upgrade cycle from 7.1 to current. > > I'm glad you're happy now, but you won't be when you do your next > mergemaster run. :) I'm happy in terms of build and install time, I did not reinstall world yet again. The platform where I install the current build takes ages to build itself. So I crossbuilt. I NFS exported the install/src dir and rsynced the root and mergemastered -F. > Mergemaster counts on there being a real version number in the VCS Id > string to compare against and learn about new versions of files. If > the files in your base and the files in the src tree all have > identical strings (i.e., they are all equal to $FreeBSD$) then > mergemaster will never know that there is a new version available. Ok. This would have hit me tomorrow, after a new install. Thanks again, AndreasReceived on Wed Mar 25 2009 - 20:24:17 UTC
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