Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:14:20 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup prefix - Message-ID: <19970826071420.26674@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199708260435.VAA03057@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 09:35:20PM -0700 References: <199708230924.LAA18832@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <199708260435.VAA03057@austin.polstra.com>
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On Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 09:35:20PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <199708230924.LAA18832@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>,
> Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> wrote:
>
> > I'm getting something like
> >
> > "src is a symlink but should be a directory, check your prefix"
> >
> > from my cvsup client.
> >
> > The cvsup ran anyway . I changed the prefix accordingly
> > but why this warning?
>
> If you are using checkout mode (tag=something or date=something),
> then the warning is a bug. It will be gone in the next release.
I was using:
src-all release=cvs host=freefall.freebsd.org base=/usr hostbase=/home
prefix=/usr delete old use-rel-suffix tag=.
ports-all release=cvs host=freefall.freebsd.org base=/usr hostbase=/home
prefix=/usr delete old use-rel-suffix tag=.
>
> If you are using CVS mode (no "tag" or "date" in your supfile), then
> the warning is valid. In that mode, CVSup intends to preserve all
> attributes possible for each file. If it has a directory but you
> have a symlink, it complains.
>
> The "Announce" file for CVSup 15.1 discusses the topic in a little
> bit more detail, in the section "Compatibility with Previous
> Releases".
>
> John
> --
> John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
> John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
> "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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