Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] CVS update problems

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 25 Feb 2002 08:43:31 -0600
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 01:17, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:56:07AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> > $ cvs up
> > cvs [server aborted]: illegal special character in RCS field in /cvsroot/ethereal/ncp2222.py,v
> > 
> > $ cat CVS/Root
> > :pserver:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot
> 
> I had a problem doing an anonymous CVS update yesterday; the problem was
> with a file that had been updated recently, as yours probably also is.
> 
> The problem eventually went away; I think the anonymous CVS tree - which
> is separate from the regular CVS tree, and which I think is updated by a
> cron job, by copying from the regular CVS tree - may have caught the CVS
> tree in the middle of an update.
> 
> Try again in an hour or so after your last try; the cron job may copy a
> completely-updated version of the file over.
> 

Gerald just implemented a change where a cron job runs every 5 minutes
and checks to see if the writable CVS has been modified. If so, it
copies it over to the anonymous CVS directory. The intent is to make
changes available sooner in anonymous CVS. You should be able to try
again in a few minutes.

--gilbert