Re: CVS problems: inconsistent, bad host.

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 12:24:22PM +1200, John Huttley wrote:
> Whould someone in RHAD please forward this to the person who admins cvs.
> 
> Subject: Anoncvs problems
> 1. One of the cvs servers will always give 'no route to host'. Please
> delete it from the DNS.
> 
> 2. CVS mirrors wildly consistent. Example follows.
> I saw Miguel's anouncement of  gnumeric .24. This prompted me to anoncvs
> the latest version.
> During the compile I saw macro definitions of version ".23'. The compile
> failed.
> When compiles fail I tend to delete and re checkout.

When compiles fail and you can't really see how to solve it yourself
(for example by deleting .deps directories), then you should just wait
a few hours or a day before you update your existing tree and try again.

CVS versions are expected to break once in a while. That's normal.
Trying to 'force' a correct build by deleting your tree and rechecking
things out is a complete waste of bandwidth most of the time.

> Version .23 again!.
> I just sat there, running  update gnumeric until I got several with no
> changes.
> This time i had version .24. It still doesn't compile, but this time I
> know at least i'm current.
> 
> I estimate the out of sync to be a day or more. Possibly lots more.
> 
> I lack the knowledge of cvs to identify the culprit(s), but suggest that
> slow cvs from  a guaranteed master is better that this.
> Consider! I sat there doing cvs update over and over, purely because I
> couldn't trust what I was receiving.

As I read it, you were getting .23 for a while until finally .24 came
through. This is perfectly understandable. The anoncvs is a mirror
and is updated maybe once an hour, so it takes some time before it gets the
latest changes. If it took much longer, maybe the system was overloaded
by people madly updating CVS over and over again.

> A totally avoidable load on the system.

Yeah just wait a few hours before you try again.

> 
> Regards
> 
> 

Ronald