Re: CVS directories in debian packages
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:53:10AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 18-May-2002 Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:01:21PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> It does not make sense for source packages either; CVS
> >> directories in source trees cause havoc when trying to later import
> >> the sources into another CVS repository (for example, a user trying
> >> to keep local modifications of debian sources in a local CVS).
> >
> > Well you assume that all source packages are from an external upstream.
> > That is not always the case. In fact many of the packages I maintain
> > (like java-common, harden etc) is generated from a cvs dir. It is very
> > convenient. How can you exclude the CVS dirs from the source package then?
> >
> > Well I can export on every build but that takes quite a lot of time.
> > I like to build from the normal cvs dir.
> >
>
> find . -name CVS -print|xargs rm -r CVS
>
> Shipping CVS dirs is plain wrong and causes headaches for people (just not you).
In the source package?
Regards,
// Ola
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