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On 19 Sep, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Scott R. Sewall" <sewall@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>> cd /usr/release/usr && rm -rf src &&  cvs -R -d /home/ncvs co  -P -r
>> RELENG_4 src

>> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

In this particular case, creating the val-tags file with the following
contents should make cvs happy again:

RELENG_4 y