Re: Symlinks in the source tarfile

2000-03-14 Thread Thomas Esser
First problem: the tetex 1.0.6 release says to report problems to an address "tetex-pretest" Where exactly? In the file PROBLEMS. Ah, I see and I'll fix this. Thanks, Thomas

Symlinks in the source tarfile

2000-03-13 Thread Greg Hudson
First problem: the tetex 1.0.6 release says to report problems to an address "tetex-pretest", which doesn't seem right for problems with a release. Second problem: you have symlinks in the source tar archive (for oxdvik and odvipsk). This really bites for people maintaining local mods under

Re: Symlinks in the source tarfile

2000-03-13 Thread Greg Hudson
What is the problem with CVS? Are you saying that CVS cannot handle symbolic links at all? I find that hard to believe. It can't handle symbolic links at all. Why is that hard to believe? (CVS also doesn't have a good way of preserving time stamps on an import/checkout operation without