Re: Welcome to The XEmacs Development Team.

[Moved to xemacs-beta] On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 23:32, Uwe Brauer wrote: I would strongly recommend against that. It may work if done carefully, but you really shouldn't even try. See below. Yup, probably this is due to something wrong in the copying of the CVS/ dirs and files. Nope, but it is actually pretty close. "diff --exclude CVS -Nru auctex-10g auctex > auctex.patch" ...would result in almost what you're looking for, but it's not worth much since the you won't be able to commit from the new auctex dir due to the same problems you saw with "cvs diff". At this point, I think this would be the best way to proceed: 1) rm -rf the auctex-10g dir 2) Move away the (new) auctex dir, into somewhere safe, let's say ~/auctex-new 3) cd to packages/xemacs-packages 4) cvs update 5) cd to auctex (that should reappear in cvs update, if it do 6) Start processing the files from ~/auctex-new one by one (excluding all CVS/*) - For all files that exist in both dirs, just copy the one from ~/auctex-new overwriting the existing one in xemacs-packages/auctex - For files that exist in xemacs-packages/auctex but not in ~/auctex-new, do a "rm foo ; cvs rm foo" in xemacs-packages/auctex. But *only* if the files are not needed any more. - For files that are in ~/auctex-new but not in xemacs-packages/auctex, copy and "cvs add" them in the latter. 7) Update Makefile and package-info.in (provides) with files removed/added as necessary. 8) Do a "cvs diff -u > ~/auctex-sync.patch" and send ~/auctex-sync.patch to xemacs-patches, we'll take a look. A useful way of checking the status of a dir is "cvs -nq update". See <http://www.xemacs.org/Lists/index.html>;. Basically, if unsure, go for xemacs-beta. But extensive general CVS support is somewhat off-topic there... try to seek information elsewhere. You can also mail me directly about this, I'll try to help out. <http://www.cvshome.org/communication.html> could be useful too. HTH, -- \/ille Skyttä scop at xemacs.org