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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:52:04 +0000
From:      Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVS error 
Message-ID:  <E105o7I-0008jV-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Michael Robinson's message of "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 07:37:02 GMT" <199901280737.HAA01704@netrinsics.com> 

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On 28 January 1999, Michael Robinson proclaimed:
> Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> wrote:
> >While trying to update to CVS RELENG_3 from anoncvs.freebsd.org:
> >
> >  cvs server: Updating src/usr.sbin/pkg_install
> >  assertion "rev == NULL || isdigit (*rev)" failed: file "/usr/src/gnu/usr.b
> in/cvs/cvs/../../../../contrib/cvs/src/rcs.c", line 2861
> >  Terminated with fatal signal 6
> >
> >Any clues?
> 
> Well, I found what I believe to be a clue here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/Makefile.inc
> 
> Is it legal for RCS revision numbers to go backwards?

It looks like it's going backwards, but all it means is that the last
commit was to a different branch than the head.

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1.3.8.1 Wed Oct 28 12:00:31 1998 UTC by jkh
> CVS Tags: RELENG_2_2_8_RELEASE; Branch: RELENG_2_2
> Diffs to 1.3 ; Diffs to 1.4
>  
> MFC: assorted fixes.
>  
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1.4 Sat Mar 7 8:54:48 1998 UTC by bde
> CVS Tags: RELENG_3_BP, RELENG_3_0_0_RELEASE, HEAD, RELENG_3
> Diffs to 1.3
>  
> Use `foo/bar.a' instead of `-Lfoo -lbar' for linking to static internal
> libraries, so that `ld -f' in can create correct dependencies for
> yet-to-be-built libraries.
>  
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1.3 Tue Sep 13 10:20:02 1994 UTC by jkh
> CVS Tags: RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE, RELENG_2_2_6_RELEASE, RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE, R
> ELE
> NG_2_2_2_RELEASE,
> RELENG_2_2_1_RELEASE, RELENG_2_2_0_RELEASE, RELENG_2_1_7_RELEASE, RELENG_2_1_
> 6_1
> _RELEASE,
> RELENG_2_1_6_RELEASE, RELENG_2_2_BP, RELENG_2_1_5_RELEASE, RELENG_2_1_0_RELEA
> SE,
>  RELENG_2_1_0_BP,
> RELENG_2_0_5_RELEASE, RELENG_2_0_5_BP, RELENG_2_0_5_ALPHA, RELEASE_2_0, BETA_
> 2_0
> , ALPHA_2_0,
> RELENG_2_0_5, RELENG_2_1_0; Branch point for: RELENG_2_2
> Diffs to 1.2
>  
> Make this stop trying to go into /usr/local and inherit the settings
> from above instead.

-- 
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator

``Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.''
		-- Henry Spencer
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