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Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:22:26 +0000

On Nov 26, 2007 10:55 AM, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Eric Blake just told me that in fact git-cvspserver silently does not
support "update -D" and so this technique actually does the wrong
thing.   I guess findutils will need to move to obtaining the current
gnulib via git.   It's slightly disappointing that this introduces an
extra dependency on git for people checking the findutils code out of
CVS.  Details at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?21568

James.




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