CVSup questions

[Jay O'Brien]

Subhro wrote:

> Jay O'Brien wrote:
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> 
>>I built src-all and ports-all. Now, there is a /usr/ports 
>>directory and and lots of directories and files therein. In 
>>/usr/ports, I did make fetchindex. It failed. The 
>>/usr/ports/Makeindex file was really Makeindex,v. I copied it 
>>as Makeindex, and tried make fetchindex again. It showed many 
>>errors, finally "fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue".
>>
> 
> You probably used CVS instead of cvsup. CVS, also known as Concurrent 
> Version System is a mechanism which allows developers to manage codebase 
> on which more than one individual is working simultaneously. When some 
> change is made to a file "foo.bar" managed by a CVS, a file called 
> "foo.bar,v" is created by the CVS. This file contains all the 
> information about what changed and who changed it along with the 
> comments which a developer might have provided during updating the file 
> "foo.bar". Just to add, using the foo.bar,v file along with foo.bar, any 
> version of the file may be created that ever existed.
> 
> 
No, I used cvsup. However, I was idly reading through all of the CVSup 
FAQ, and I found my problem. It explained that my supfile didn't have 
"tag=." and I knew that it did. Sure enough, a typo. I used a - instead 
of an =. It read "tag-.". Now, with it correct, pkg_version works. And 
now I understand the ,v indicates RCS files.
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> 
> Best of Luck and welcome to the wonderful world where most of the things 
> are free :-)

Thank you very much, I really appreciate your quick and thoughtful answer.

Jay

> 
> Best Regards,
> S.