From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 13 12:44:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F33F37B400; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2DKiPWZ071532; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:44:26 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20020313113424.B4997@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:44:24 -0500 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:39 PM +0100 3/13/02, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Garance A Drosihn writes: >> You can check out from read-only repos, such as cd-rom drives. > >Not if you need to use a tag and the repo doesn't have a val-tags >file, or the tag isn't listed in it. > >> I know I've done it, but maybe I've only done it on openbsd. >> There's some option you have to include to 'cvs' so it won't >> try to write anything to the repository. (I forget what it >> is though). > >-R, but it won't help. Sounds like -R should be fixed so it works right in this situation, instead of providing a compile-time option to avoid the problem. (mind you, I don't even know what "val-tags" are...) Why should someone have to recompile CVS just to get -R to work? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message