Subject: Re: misc/15797: Lack of CVSROOT/options file foils CVSup $NetBSD$ expansion
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/03/2002 18:16:47
[ On Sunday, March 3, 2002 at 23:42:39 (+0100), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: misc/15797: Lack of CVSROOT/options file foils CVSup $NetBSD$ expansion
>
> Well, unfortunably the CVSROOT is *not* propagated to mirrors; each mirror
> maintain their own CVSROOT.

That's really bogus.  The files in the CVSROOT directory are the very
core and most necessary part of any CVS repository!  These files really
should all be shipped with replicas of the repository, even if such
replicas are intended to be read-only!

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