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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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