Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

[James Youngman]

On Nov 26, 2007 7:48 AM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> That is what I do in my projects too: I commit gnulib files, but not
> other "generated" files.  The problem I have with switching to any other
> mode is reproducibility.  When checking out an old version of my
> software, how can I be sure to get the appropriate gnulib files?  How do
> others that use the bootstrap tool solve this problem?

For findutils, I don't use the bootstrap tool.   Instead I use a
hand-crufted script in findutils.   Findutils has a config file that
contains a gnulib version identifier and a list of modules.
Essentially it checks gnulib out using "cvs checkout -D" to get a
reproducible version and then imports the indicated modules.   The
config file and the script which reads it are checked into CVS and
included in findutils releases.

James.