From owner-cvs-ports Wed Jun 18 06:57:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA17756 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 06:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spinner.dialix.com.au (spinner.dialix.com.au [192.203.228.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA17750; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 06:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spinner.dialix.com.au (localhost.dialix.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.dialix.com.au with ESMTP id VAA27101; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:55:59 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <199706181355.VAA27101@spinner.dialix.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Thomas Gellekum cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/math/Scilab - Imported sources In-reply-to: Your message of "18 Jun 1997 14:25:19 +0200." <87wwns3xow.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:55:58 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas Gellekum wrote: > Thomas Gellekum 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