Re: 'CVS-Unknown' buildfarm failures?

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> What's happening here is that cvs actually creates the directory and 
>>> then later prunes it when it finds it is empty.
>>
>> I find that explanation pretty unconvincing.  Why would cvs print a "?"
>> for such a directory?
>
> cvs will print a ? if it doesn't know what it is... or is that svn?
>

yes, it's a file/directory it doesn't know about.

At one stage I suppressed these checks, but I found that too many times 
we saw errors due to unclean repos. So now buildfarm insists on having a 
clean repo.

I suppose I could provide a switch to turn it off ... in one recent case 
the repo was genuinely not clean, though, so I am not terribly keen on 
that approach - but I am open to persuasion.

cheers

andrew