From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 15:43:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02667 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02657 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:43:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10893; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:44:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA18344; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:44:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:44:01 -0700 Message-Id: <199801222244.PAA18344@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange CVS behavior In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. :) :) Nate