>> It appears that the cvs binary installation does not install several >> files in /usr/lib/cvs that are necessary to create the repository. >> This causes cvs to have incorrect assumptions about the state of the >> repository when it is first created (per instructions for CVS's >> documentation). It appears that /usr/doc/cvs contains all the files >> that /usr/lib/cvs is supposed to have. A temporary fix is to change >> debian.postinst to 'cp -r /usr/doc/cvs/* /usr/lib/cvs'. >Thanks for the info. I'm not a CVS user, and it'll take me a while >to sort out what's required to run the basic distribution and what's >optional user-contributed stuff. My intention was to install the >basic CVS stuff as the default and put the user-contrib stuff in >/usr/doc/cvs. If you can help me sort this out, it'll speed up >a fix to the package.
What, is this just a straight package from the GNU CVS distribution then? I've got a fair amount of RCS and CVS experience; I wouldn't mind taking up that package and forming it to the Debian filesystem. -- http://www.wp.com/joelh --- Joel Ray Holveck --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped