Re: Some problems on Savannah

Laurent Julliard <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:13:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.savannah.devel
Organization XR&T-XAC / Open Source Team
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Loic Dachary wrote:

>  > I guess a /home/large_tmp or /audio-video/large_tmp should be created 
>  > and then use the -T argument of cvs to specify the new cvs temp 
>  > directory. Shouldn't the /cvsroot dir be moved to /audio-video as well 
>  > by the way?
> 
> 	The problem is that there are subtle bugs when using a separate
> LockDir (which is the case of all projects) on repositories with symbolic
> links in them (which is why cvsroot was moved to / in the first place).
> 

I'm far from a cvs expert but I don't think there is any relation 
between a CVS repo lock dir and the temporary directory I'm speaking of 
here. The temp dir I'm speaking about is used as a transient storage 
space for committed files. Once the committed files are all in this 
space then the real commit process can start and this is where the 
LockDir palys a role.

See http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs-1.9/html_chapter/cvs_20.html#SEC89 for 
more information.

Laurent