Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/cvs2p4
To: None <pkgsrc-changes@netbsd.org>
From: Amitai Schlair <schmonz@netbsd.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 11/22/2002 23:13:07
Module Name:	pkgsrc
Committed By:	schmonz
Date:		Fri Nov 22 21:13:07 UTC 2002

Modified Files:
	pkgsrc/devel/cvs2p4: Makefile distinfo

Log Message:
Update to 2.3.3. From the changelog:

=== Release 2.3.3, October 28, 2002

Changes to start coping with MKS Source Integrity conversions.

This change allows genmetadata to simply ignore (and hence, to
continue working!) the "ext" and "format" keywords that MKS Source
Integrity apparently adds to the rcs repertiore. This could possibly
be recoded to deal with arbitrary new keywords, but I don't want to go
there now.

Note that there *may* be other gotchas when attempting to use cvs2p4
to convert MKS SI repositories, which may be addressed by future
changes to cvs2p4:

  1. It appears that MKS may compress (gzip) binary ,v files, but *not*
     rename them to refelct this. Very odd.

  2. It appears that MKS may allow a larger character set (than pure RCS)
     in legal symbolic names. I can probably fix cvs2p4 to deal with these
     pretty easily, but we should also consider whether any of the MKS names
     might be illegal in Perforce (and thus needs some sort of
     translation).

Intrepid users setting out to use this tool to convert MKS into
Perforce are encouraged to send problem reports to
"opensource@perforce.com".


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/devel/cvs2p4/Makefile \
    pkgsrc/devel/cvs2p4/distinfo

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.