From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 16:13:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04703 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:13:18 -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 QAA04697 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:13:10 -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 QAA11259; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:44:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA18919; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:43:58 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:43:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199801222343.QAA18919@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: Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange CVS behavior In-Reply-To: References: <199801222244.PAA18344@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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 Is it installed where the stuff in CVSROOT expects it. > b. It worked perfectly fine for over a year, until today. You were lucky up till this point for whatever reason. > 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. If you're using cvs and the CVSROOT you are using is from the FreeBSD, you are explicitly using the files in CVSROOT. You have no choice unless you've edited the configuration files (which live in CVSROOT) to not use them. Nate