Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:44:24 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS Message-ID: <p05101566b8b569cba514@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <xzpy9gwfbiu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203131055300.70491-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <xzpsn74gtuj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020313113424.B4997@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpg034gssa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <p05101565b8b56678dd9f@[128.113.24.47]> <xzpy9gwfbiu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 9:39 PM +0100 3/13/02, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes: >> You can check out from read-only repos, such as cd-rom drives. > >Not if you need to use a tag and the repo doesn't have a val-tags >file, or the tag isn't listed in it. > >> I know I've done it, but maybe I've only done it on openbsd. >> There's some option you have to include to 'cvs' so it won't >> try to write anything to the repository. (I forget what it >> is though). > >-R, but it won't help. Sounds like -R should be fixed so it works right in this situation, instead of providing a compile-time option to avoid the problem. (mind you, I don't even know what "val-tags" are...) Why should someone have to recompile CVS just to get -R to work? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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