Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:55:58 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com.au> To: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/math/Scilab - Imported sources Message-ID: <199706181355.VAA27101@spinner.dialix.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Jun 1997 14:25:19 %2B0200." <87wwns3xow.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Thomas Gellekum wrote: > Thomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > > > I ports/math/Scilab/CVS > > Is that a feature of the new cvs? There was never a CVS dir in the > port. Sort of.. It's both a questionable feature in CVS and a bug in easy-import. easy-import's error is that it checks out the modules database *inside* the tree that you are importing - this opens it up to all sorts of side effects when/if something goes wrong or cvs's behavior changes (such as this one). cvs >= 1.9.x creates the CVS dir in the $cwd when a directory is checked out to hold a path to the $CVSROOT that was used to check out the dir. The theory is that you can check out a bunch of modules and do a 'cvs update' from the containing directory without the $CVSROOT variable being needed (or used?). It seems that setting a $CVSROOT environment variable is going out of fashion and CVS/Root is taking over. > tg > Cheers, -Peter
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