I wrote:
>
> Be default, CVS uses it's own dbm emulator that works directly off of
> the text file -- there aren't any real database files -- so rebuilding
> the modules database doesn't really do anything, not even checking for
> duplicate keys.
Which isn't right: rebuilding the modules database *does* explicitly
check for duplicate keys. So, the problem isn't with the modules file
after all, it's with CVSROOT/val-tags (which I had completely forgotten
about). val-tags simply records all of the tags that exist in the
repository in the general form:
<tag> y
so my guess is that you've got a couple of malformed lines in there from
somewhere. You can just delete any lines that don't look right --
missing entries just slow down the first reference, they don't cause
anything to break.
-Larry Jones
OK, what's the NEXT amendment say? I know it's in here someplace. -- Calvin
