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Re: eCos CVS server still obsolete?
- To: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos CVS server still obsolete?
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:03:35 +0100
- Cc: Fabrice Gautier <gautier at email dot enst dot fr>,ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com, sourcemaster at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <20010601175241.9B85.GAUTIER@email.enst.fr> <20010601181710.D6199@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>
Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> > From: Fabrice Gautier <gautier@email.enst.fr>
> > To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: [ECOS] eCos CVS server still obsolete?
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last year I complained about eCos cvs server wasn't generating correct
> > diffs because of a bug corrected in more recent versions.
> > Today I'm complaining because it looks like the old CVS server doesn't
> > support the "update -C" option.
> >
> > This will hoppefully convince somebody to do the - probably
> > painfull - update of the cvs server.. :-)
>
> It may be worth complaining on one of the more high volume lists which
> also use the CVS server. eg one of the gcc lists?
>
> You could also try a directed email at sourcemaster@sources.redhat.com
It's a well known issue. The cvs server that Red Hat uses has a bunch of
hacks that need preserving. Unfortunately no-one has had the problem to
apply these hacks to a new version of the sources and test it.
Jifl
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