nix> You need to let world write to val-tags, I think: Yes, we've been there before. I forgot. Undocumented. :-( nix> --- and, also, the sumo tags are sticky (at least Er, yes. As I read the docs, if you check out with _any_ tag or date, you will get sticky data. nix> sumo-2001-09-29 is), which is probably wrong for dated tags nix> like the sumo tags are. No, it is correct. The point is to allow you to do something like # good enough for me cvs checkout -r sumo-2001-09-29 packages # but I want the flashiest and trashiest JDE cd xemacs-packages/jde; cvs update -A # and the TRAMP package is new and almost certainly broken cd ../tramp; cvs update -A # and Lord knows any change to edict would be an improvement cd ../../mule-packages/edict; cvs update -A Now we pick all of those up with a cvs update from the package source root. What behavior do you want? If you want bleeding edge, use -A. If you want current sumo configuration, I guess Steve should start doing a moving tag "sumo-current" with his sumo releases, as well as the dated ones. We don't have any branches in packages currently (AFAIK), and that's not the right way to manage this anyway. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

SY> And for SUMOs ,---- | cvs tag sumo-`date +%Y-%m-%d` `---- Ah, easy pie. Substitute # paranoia. I'm sure I've seen you working at midnight. SUMO_DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` # your dated tag cvs tag sumo-${SUMO_DATE} # CVS normally will not reuse an existing tag; `-F' forces it to move # where you say. `-r' is as usual. cvs tag -F -r sumo-${SUMO_DATE} sumo-current -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

SY> Cool. Now pardon me for being stupid, but what does the '-r' SY> option do? Same thing as in any CVS command, select the revision of each file to map the tag to. The -r is just paranoia. It also is often useful to use the rtag command in scripts instead of the tag command, and in that case you do need to give a specific revision for each file since there is no workspace to refer to. SY> Should I be using it when tagging the individual SY> packages as well? That depends. At the rate you release sumos, I would say not needed; just tell people that if they want a pretty fresh but stable version of any given package, use -r sumo-current. If they need something newer than that, use -A (to clear any stick tags and get the bleeding edge). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.