Re: [Savannah-dev] Some problems on Savannah

[Loic Dachary]

Laurent Julliard writes:
 > 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 

        This is correct, I was only refering to the suggested move of /cvsroot.
If we plan to move /cvsroot, it must not involve symlinks. This is unrelated
to the temporary directory thing.

 > 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.

        Regarding the temporary directory, we could of course point it
to somewhere else.

        Cheers,

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