CVS repository corruption in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/pkg?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

Hi Ulrich,

The email alias for CVS admins is `cvsadm'.

Do you want me to forward this email to cvsadm@ or do you prefer
to do it yourself?  Feel free to Cc: me too, as I'm interested in
conversion tool from CVS to Mercurial.

- Giorgos

On 2007-09-04 20:43, Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since I can't seem to find a mail address for the cvsmeisters, I'm
> writing to -current. Perhaps someone can forward this mail to the
> responsible person.
>
> I'm playing with the conversion of the FreeBSD CVS repository into
> various other formats, among them svn. When using cvs2svn 2.0 it
> (rightly) complains about the state of the repository for pkg_install
>
> ERROR: Directory name conflicts with filename.  Please remove or rename one
> of the following:
>     "/data/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/pkg"
>     "/data/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/Attic/pkg,v"
> Exited due to fatal error(s).
>
> src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/pkg is an empty (!) directory, which serves no
> purpose AFAICT. If/When someone removes the directory on the master CVS
> server, will that correctly propagate through cvsup?
>
> Cheers,
> Ulrich Spoerlein
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