Re: Symlinks in CVS trees
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:19:17AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Can anyone help with this one?
>
> tetex-* has symlinks in the upstream source tree. CVS doesn't like
> symlinks :-/ Using the -e/-o commands in the CVSROOT/modules file to
> have a script create the symlinks on export/checkout works fine if the
> CVSROOT is on a local machine, but if it's a remote machine, then any
> scripts are executed on the server, not the client.
>
> So does anyone have any suggestions as how to handle this with CVS?
> (And please don't say "use a different system" at this point ;-)
Joey Hess retains a local script to manage links after checking out, as
I recall, when he CVSs home directory and such. I could never find a
better way to do it either.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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