Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes:
> This has been reported by at least 4 users: > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2010-05/msg00063.html> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509387> > <http://pastebin.com/f6d75a039> > <http://trac.navit-project.org/ticket/317> > > The common point between these reports is that they use the 'autopoint' > program (part of GNU gettext), which uses the 'cvs' program to extract > particular versions of files from an archive, and the error message > > cvs [init aborted]: Cannot initialize repository under existing CVSROOT > > 'autopoint' creates an empty directory and attempts to create an empty > CVS repository in it, and this fails. The only workaround would be to use chroot... probably not desirable for this use case. Failing that, you would need to hack ccvs/src/init.c::init() to ignore the error of finding a CVSROOT looking hierarchy in the parent directory chain. Again probably not desirable for this use case. If there is sufficient demand, a '-f' option to force overwrite of an existing repository may be able to be added. -- Mark
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