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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:04:51 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help running 'make release' w/ r/o CVSROOT
Message-ID:  <20030919120451.GC25064@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpvfrpry5r.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200309190725.h8J7PojS032794@gw.catspoiler.org> <3F6AB822.8070809@ix.netcom.com> <xzpvfrpry5r.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:16:16AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> "Scott R. Sewall" <sewall@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> > My CVS repository does not have the file val-tags.  I also don't see
> > this file on the web interface
> > to the CVS repository at freebsd.org.  How is this file created?
>=20
> It is created by cvs and updated every time you use a tag with -r or
> -j which isn't already listed in val-tags.  It's a major PITA, but you
> can fairly easily disable it by adding a return statement right after
> the syntax checks in tag_check_valid() (i.e. somewhere around line
> 1212) in src/contrib/cvs/src/tag.c.
>=20
> Another solution would be to distribute repoman's val-tags along with
> the rest of the repo, but for some reason val-tags in on cvsup's
> exclude list.
>=20
I usually create an empty val-tags file, and cvs(1) then turns an error
into a plain (but annoying) warning:

$ cvs -R -d /home/ncvs co -rRELENG_4 src/COPYRIGHT
cvs checkout: warning: cannot open /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags read/write: =
Read-only file system
U src/COPYRIGHT


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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