Subject: Re: kernel filesystem code move
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/30/2002 18:43:50
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:11:44AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> [cc line trimmed; it was getting insane ;]
> 
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:36:26AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>   | 
>   | Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com> writes:
>   | >  how about a slightly different marking: "DEAD" vs "dead". with
>   | > "DEAD" meaning consider dead for checkout but not for diff. CVS
>   | > hack required, but only on the server side (I think, it's been a
>   | > while since I've used this). Patch attached.
>   | 
>   | That's more or less what I suggested, and I think it is a good
>   | idea. It allows diffs and imports to continue to work without breaking
>   | date based checkouts.
> 
> Would this require that anoncvs & cvsweb repository mirrors need to
> run the "netbsd modified cvs(1)" in this case to function correctly?
> If so, we need to consider the ramifications of this, even if it's
> just "you need to run a netbsd modified cvs(1)" ...

One already needs to run a specific version of CVS -- with at least one
of our local modifications -- to be an anoncvs mirror. 

Thor