Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:03:44 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CVSup questions Message-ID: <42465AD0.30406@att.net> In-Reply-To: <42464B4C.7010100@gmail.com> References: <424645D0.2010705@att.net> <42464B4C.7010100@gmail.com>
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Subhro wrote: > Jay O'Brien wrote: /snip/ > >>I built src-all and ports-all. Now, there is a /usr/ports >>directory and and lots of directories and files therein. In >>/usr/ports, I did make fetchindex. It failed. The >>/usr/ports/Makeindex file was really Makeindex,v. I copied it >>as Makeindex, and tried make fetchindex again. It showed many >>errors, finally "fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue". >> > > You probably used CVS instead of cvsup. CVS, also known as Concurrent > Version System is a mechanism which allows developers to manage codebase > on which more than one individual is working simultaneously. When some > change is made to a file "foo.bar" managed by a CVS, a file called > "foo.bar,v" is created by the CVS. This file contains all the > information about what changed and who changed it along with the > comments which a developer might have provided during updating the file > "foo.bar". Just to add, using the foo.bar,v file along with foo.bar, any > version of the file may be created that ever existed. > > No, I used cvsup. However, I was idly reading through all of the CVSup FAQ, and I found my problem. It explained that my supfile didn't have "tag=." and I knew that it did. Sure enough, a typo. I used a - instead of an =. It read "tag-.". Now, with it correct, pkg_version works. And now I understand the ,v indicates RCS files. /snip/ > > Best of Luck and welcome to the wonderful world where most of the things > are free :-) Thank you very much, I really appreciate your quick and thoughtful answer. Jay > > Best Regards, > S.
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