Re: 'CVS-Unknown' buildfarm failures?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Sudden thought: is there any particularly good reason to use the cvs
> update -P switch in buildfarm repositories?  If we simply eliminated
> the create/prune thrashing for these directories, it'd fix the problem,
> if Andrew's idea is correct.  Probably save a few cycles too.  And since
> people are really not supposed to be using these checkouts for anything
> else, they don't need to be pretty.
>   


Good point. I'll do that, since it's pretty close to cost-free.

There will be a new release of buildfarm client code, with this and the 
error name change, in the next day or so.

cheers

andrew