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wrg grant ...
Apr 2, 1996 3:27 am
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Did anyone ever solve Mr. Doherty's...
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Steve Willer ...
Apr 2, 1996 5:33 am
Why on earth would cvs merge binary files? Is there any way to turn this off?...
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Richard Doherty ...
Apr 2, 1996 6:41 am
Clear the CVS_BADROOT setting in src/options.h. This is unfortunate, since I would prefer to avoid allowing root to make commits (like the comment says it...
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wrg grant ...
Apr 3, 1996 2:27 am
We've just finished upgrading to CVS 1.7. At aprox the same time the loginfo file (which is "run" during a cvs commit) no longer expands environment variables,...
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gary webb x240 ...
Apr 3, 1996 5:05 am
My apologies to any who object to my use of the group for the following... I would appreciate it, if anyone who knows of a position open or opening for a...
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Pratik Bose ...
Apr 3, 1996 6:50 am
Hi! We have a situation where we wish to create a repository on the HP 9000 and access remotely from a Sparc which supports both SunOS 4.1.3 and SunOS 5.4. I...
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Herve DEBAR ...
Apr 3, 1996 10:38 am
Dear all, I am having problems setting the permissions and ownerships rights for my cvs environment. I have created a user "source", group "source", which owns...
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Michael Diers ...
Apr 3, 1996 2:48 pm
wrg grant <buildmgr@...> wrote: (edited) ... This bit me, too. CVS 1.7 doesn't expand any old environment variable any more. In particular, $USER is...
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Norbert Kiesel ...
Apr 3, 1996 3:12 pm
Hi! If you are using cvs-1.6 or beyond, you should edit src/options.h and enable the SETXID_SUPPORT. Then, compile cvs again and install with setgid bit set...
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Mikel Doucet ...
Apr 3, 1996 7:30 pm
... You should set the set-GID bit on your CVS repository directories (ie.module). Then, define and set your desired group (ex. 'source' in your case). Those...
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Eric Hilfer ...
Apr 3, 1996 10:01 pm
Hi Gary, We currently have an opening for a real-time programmer. Our product is a data-acquisition system for the science education market, covering...
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Noel Yap ...
Apr 3, 1996 11:46 pm
Is there any way to test changes made to CVSROOT files before commiting them? Thanks....
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Noel Yap ...
Apr 4, 1996 12:45 am
Perhaps someone could help me with these questions: 0. What flavor of regular expressions are used in the first column of commitinfo and loginfo? 1. What sort...
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Terry Hung ...
Apr 4, 1996 1:31 am
We are running cvs-1.6. We just learned that the following action cvs co -r tag FOO cvs rm FOO/foo will simply remove the tag from foo in the repository...
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Gary Oberbrunner ...
Apr 4, 1996 1:59 am
The following patch makes the current version of vc.el (an Emacs version-control front-end) work with CVS on Windows NT. It makes it ignore the fact that you...
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Steve Willer ...
Apr 4, 1996 2:29 am
... You could copy the files to the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT directory. That won't affect the RCS'd files themselves....
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Steve Willer ...
Apr 4, 1996 3:15 am
I've written perhaps 4 or 5 notes to this mailing list about problems I've had with CVS, and no one's responded to a single one. Am I being ignored?...
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Steve Willer ...
Apr 4, 1996 3:22 am
... First of all, let me note that I disagree with having $CVSROOT/$MODULE_NAME/log as a standard. There's no need to have to 'cd' all over the tree just to...
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Eduardo Ceballos ...
Apr 4, 1996 4:55 am
Anyone know what the deal with rcs-5.7 install on a Solaris 2.4 machine... I caught the note on patching to fix mmap (did that), but a installcheck gripes...
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Pratik Bose ...
Apr 4, 1996 6:54 am
... Stuck at the same place......any suggestions welcome thanks -- Pratik Bose Addresses Home : X-7 Sector 12,Noida Office :HCL-Consulting Ltd UP PIN-201301...
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Michael Helm ...
Apr 4, 1996 8:58 pm
I had no problem. Maybe you should describe your configuration in more detail? Compilers are 1 obvious suspect. I used cc/4.0.1 on diff & gcc-2.7.2 on...
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Chris_Eich@....
Apr 4, 1996 9:55 pm
-- --PART-BOUNDARY=.19604040836.ZM11754.optilink.dsccc.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I did this 4 months ago with no problems, can't remember...
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Eduardo Ceballos ...
Apr 5, 1996 1:21 am
Thanx for all the replies... seems I was picking-up a version bad version of co... the solution is to... # make ; make install ; make installcheck ; How's a...
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Jim Kingdon ...
Apr 6, 1996 7:14 am
... I can't speak for anyone else, but I have decided that I don't have time to answer questions on this list. Especially considering that to really solve a...
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Jim Kingdon ...
Apr 6, 1996 6:03 pm
CVS 1.7.2 has the following fixes to the environment variable issue that people were discussing on this list: 1. $USER works again (now an "internal variable"...
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Michael Hunter ...
Apr 7, 1996 11:55 pm
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Michael Hunter ...
Apr 7, 1996 11:55 pm
Below are patches to allow CVS 1.7 to compile under QNX 4.22. mph ... *************** ... #ifdef ALLOCA_IN_STDLIB /* then we need do nothing */ #else + #ifdef...
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Michael Hunter ...
Apr 8, 1996 2:54 am
... Ouch! Sorry about that. I can't even blame my wife's cat because it had got its daily walk on my keyboard out of the way many minutes before I sent the...
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Robert Lupton the Goo...
Apr 8, 1996 6:20 am
In the environment in which I work, we use a pseudo-account to run the cvs server, i.e. the CVSROOT is of the form cvsuser@...:/cvs We'd obviously like...
