On Nov 26, 2007 7:48 AM, Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is what I do in my projects too: I commit gnulib files, but not > other "generated" files. The problem I have with switching to any other > mode is reproducibility. When checking out an old version of my > software, how can I be sure to get the appropriate gnulib files? How do > others that use the bootstrap tool solve this problem?
For findutils, I don't use the bootstrap tool. Instead I use a hand-crufted script in findutils. Findutils has a config file that contains a gnulib version identifier and a list of modules. Essentially it checks gnulib out using "cvs checkout -D" to get a reproducible version and then imports the indicated modules. The config file and the script which reads it are checked into CVS and included in findutils releases. James.
