Symbolic Links ??

2000-12-20 Thread Peter Biechele
Does anybody have an idea on how to use symbolic Links in CVS ?? Thank you for any help ! Peter Biechele -- Dr. Peter Biechele Tel:+49 7641 920869 41 beXtec GmbH Fax:+49 7641 920869 49 Kaiserstuhlstr. 3, D-79312 Emmendingen E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTTP :

Installation of CVS server on NTServer4

2000-12-20 Thread Sébastien PETIT
Does anyone know where I can find informations on how to install a CVS server on NT platform ? Thanks, Sébastien.

CVS and Lotus Notes

2000-12-20 Thread rhelmer
Hello, Does CVS 1.10 or the new version of CVS (1.11) support communication with Lotus Notes databases via email? Is there a way to have CVS notify Lotus Notes that a "commit" has occurred? The idea is to have Lotus notes receive this "notify email", identify the SCR, and automatically append

Re: Installation of CVS server on NTServer4

2000-12-20 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:54:46PM +0100, Sébastien PETIT wrote: Does anyone know where I can find informations on how to install a CVS server on NT platform ? Try this http://www.cvsnt.com/readme.nt Cheers, Matthias -- Matthias Kranz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVS and Lotus Notes

2000-12-20 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:19:08AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does CVS 1.10 or the new version of CVS (1.11) support communication with Lotus Notes databases via email? Is there a way to have CVS notify Lotus Notes that a "commit" has occurred? The idea is to have Lotus notes receive

Re: Symbolic Links - Background !??

2000-12-20 Thread Mental
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:26:02PM +, Peter Biechele wrote: Thanks for the fast answer to this „FAQ-Question“. But the reason for the question was: Is it possible to have a CVS Repository for an /etc directory of an Linux-System ?? I want to put all the ETC dirs under CVS Control.

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-20 Thread Saima Iqbal
Hi, I don't know if anyone replied to this email or not, but I didn't see a reply. Could anyone let me know how to address this issue? Thanks in advance. Saima "Saima Iqbal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/08/2000 03:15:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Saima

Vendor branches, tracking sources and creating patches

2000-12-20 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I think I have this sorted out in my head but I need to run it past some people who are "in the know", so to speak. We are planning to create a new GCC backend, and as there will be multiple developers it all needs to be in CVS. We need to be able to: 1) update the version of gcc we are

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-20 Thread Rob
WinCVS is written in PERL. If it has an option to run arbitrary UNIX commands you should be able to run /bin/sh with the shell script as a parameter. If not, you can add a system(); call to the right place in the PERL code. On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:15:26PM -0500, Saima Iqbal wrote: Hi,

Case sensitivity, and importing from Windows

2000-12-20 Thread HMahaffey
I never had to support Windows developers before, but more of them are joining the CVS party lately. We have experienced case-sensitivity problems while importing releases of their code. What happens is the first import will contain a file named "Foo.c". The next import, it might be called

RE: Case sensitivity, and importing from Windows

2000-12-20 Thread Glew, Andy
But how is someone supposed to know on an import whether the case of their files is messed up? Do the import, check it out somewhere, notice the error, do a bunch of "cvs remove" commands, ...? Is there any way "cvs import" could check if there are similarly-named files already

Re: Vendor branches, tracking sources and creating patches

2000-12-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
nd setting a release (ie. non-branch) tag when you do this (also, use "-u" to make a patch that the GCC maintainers can actually use): cvs rtag -r HEAD patches-submitted-20001220 gcc # # Don't use "-r HEAD" again in the "rdiff"; use the tag

Re: pserver login error on checkout (.cvsignore)

2000-12-20 Thread Larry Jones
Matt Munz writes: cvs server: cannot open /var/root/.cvsignore: Permission denied As has been discussed here frequently, and as it says in the manual, this means that you've either forgotten the -f on the pserver command (which you haven't), or your inetd has set $HOME in the

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-20 Thread Derek R. Price
If didn't want the user to have write permissions to a particular directory, why did you give them write permissions to the directory? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) --

Re: CVS Repository Questions !

2000-12-20 Thread Derek R. Price
Not that I know of. Sorry. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- I will not carve gods. I will not carve gods. I will not carve gods... - Bart Simpson on

Re: Symbolic Links ??

2000-12-20 Thread Derek R. Price
Peter Biechele wrote: Does anybody have an idea on how to use symbolic Links in CVS ?? Thank you for any help ! If you mean how to check them in, don't. There used to be support for it but it caused a lot of problems, has been broken for awhile, and is unlikely to be fixed. Use a script

Re: file permissions when adding directories via pserver

2000-12-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:13:55PM -0500, Matt Munz wrote: I am currently having the problem that one user cannot check out a directory made by another, due to conflicting permissions. After pouring over the CVS manual(s) with little success, I thought I'd see if any of you could help.

Re: -kk and -kb aren't getting along

2000-12-20 Thread David L. Martin
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Unfortunately, if, say, somebody wrote some C code like the following: foo_c_date = "$Date: somedate$" as used to be a common practice, then -kk causes shortening of the data segment of a binary so that "$Date: somedate$" becoming "$Date$" throws off all sorts

Re: file permissions when adding directories via pserver

2000-12-20 Thread Larry Jones
Matt Munz writes: When a user logs in to cvs via pserver and adds a directory, what determines the file permissions of that directory? What determines the ownership, read, and write settings, etc.? The operating system. On BSD Unix (where CVS grew up), the directory would inherit the

OS Software?

2000-12-20 Thread heesun9
Are you interested in Office 2000? I am selling perfectly working copies of Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Premium Edition for a flat price of $50 USD. The suite contains 4 discs and includes: Word Excel Outlook PowerPoint Access FrontPage Publisher Small Business Tools PhotoDraw

Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation

2000-12-20 Thread David L. Martin
CVS'ers, A binary file is a binary file. Period. It can contain any sequence of characters, the encoding and interpretation of which is solely understood by the application that created it. CVS should do nothing in terms of keyword expansion or End Of Line conversion to modify a binary