cvs update: checksum failure after patch to ./Perlbal.spec; will

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

Radoslaw Zielinski wrote:
> 
>   $ cvs up Perlbal.spec
>   P Perlbal.spec
>   cvs update: checksum failure after patch to ./Perlbal.spec; will refetch
>   cvs client: refetching unpatchable files
>   cvs update: warning: `Perlbal.spec' was lost
>   U Perlbal.spec
> 
> This started to happen quite a while ago, for different spec files.
> Very annoying when trying to cvs up the whole SPECS or multiple files:
> 
>   $ cvs up apache-*
>   [ 6 OK ]
>   cvs update: checksum failure after patch to ./apache-mod_macro.spec; will=
>  refetch
>   [ 4 OK ]
>   cvs update: checksum failure after patch to ./apache-mod_security.spec; w=
> ill refetch
>   [ 3 OK ]
>   cvs update: checksum failure after patch to ./apache-solr.spec; will refe=
> tch
>   cvs client: refetching unpatchable files
>   end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
> 
> (Now I have to "cvs up" these three manually.)  I couldn't find the pattern.
> 
> Ideas?

I am not sure, but I think it is a side effect of date format differences
in changelog between server side/last updator/your cvs version.

I noticed much more such effects on a Ra machine.

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