From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 15:36:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02297 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:36:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA02286 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 10423 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Jan 1998 23:38:38 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-011998 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801222244.PAA18344@mt.sri.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:38:38 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: Strange CVS behavior Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 22-Jan-98 Nate Williams wrote: >> In reaction to ``mkdir foo; cvs add foo'' I am getting: >> >> $ cvs add dpt_ctlinfo >> require: not found > > Umm, I'd say that you are using the FreeBSD repository w/out any local > modifications to the files in CVSROOT, which is indeed a bad thing to > do. The repository requires perl5 to be installed, and apparently the > scripts aren't using perl and/or they aren't using perl5. > > The moral of the story is to not use the stuff in CVSROOT w/out knowing > what they do. :) :) This is all fine and dandy, except: a. Perl is installed, all versions available in ports b. It worked perfectly fine for over a year, until today. c. I am not using anything in CVSROOT explicitly. I use the command ``cvs add dir_name'' which worked yesterday and does not work today. My question still stands (unanswered?): What changed? ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313