Where is FreeBSD going?

Narvi narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee
Fri Jan 9 05:29:01 PST 2004


On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Lev Serebryakov wrote:

> Hello, Doug!
> Thursday, January 8, 2004, 8:29:34 PM, you wrote:
>
> DR> 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the
> DR>    current version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died
> DR>    pretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure that the svn developers
> DR>    are planning to fix most of those problems. From mailing-list
> DR>    archives, it appears that they are using our cvs tree as test
> DR>    material for the migration scripts.
>   Did you try my (pure-perl) vatinat ``RefineCVS''?
>
>   http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/refinecvs/refinecvs-0.76.783.tar.gz
>
>   But, please, read documentation carefully before reporting bugs --
>   many errors could be avoided with command-line options, sctipy is
>   paranoid by default.
>
>   Some parts of FreeBSD repository could not be converted, because
>   contains revisions like 1.2.1 and other `I don't know what I should
>   think about this' errors. If you have some good ideas -- let me know
>   :)
>

Huh? Whats wrong with revision 1.2.1 ? This is perfectly normal cvs
revision number, even if you have to use a command line option to get it.
But it should not require any kind of special treatment.

> --
>                Lev Serebryakov
>



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