On 26 Nov 2001, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 05:16:27PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > The problem is that I have a debian native package (so no .diff.gz) that > > > > came from a CVS repository and I'm guessing if there is a way to not > > > > delete by hand CVS and .cvs... files each time I check out to build the > > > > package.
Never build a full release from the cvs work directory. Always cvs export to another directory first. Doing test builds from the cvs work dir is fine. But do final releases from a temp dir. Sometimes, the cvs work dir is poluted, and having a fresh checkout is safer for repeatability.
