Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-12-03 Thread James Youngman
(Sorry about my tardiness in replying; also, moved bug-gnulib to BCC and added bug-findutils) On Nov 27, 2007 12:06 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm feel about CVS the way I've felt about K&R C for years now. > It's worth supporting if doing so is really easy (i.e., "automatic"),

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-27 Thread Jim Meyering
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 10:55 AM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 a

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-27 Thread James Youngman
On Nov 26, 2007 10:55 AM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 r

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-26 Thread Karl Berry
gl_REVISION([abc6ba7cb8ac9acb9acd..]) I don't have any objection to such a feature, but I probably wouldn't use it myself -- I update from gnulib too often to want to munge configure.ac every time. Pretty much the only time I refrain from updating is nearing a release. Best, karl

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > >> The three possibilities are listed in >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Files-under-CVS.html >> >> There's another possibility, which apparently both you and I follow in >> differ

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-26 Thread James Youngman
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 ca

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > The three possibilities are listed in > http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Files-under-CVS.html > > There's another possibility, which apparently both you and I follow in > different ways: commit some (but not all) autogenerated fi

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-19 Thread Karl Berry
The three possibilities are listed in http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Files-under-CVS.html There's another possibility, which apparently both you and I follow in different ways: commit some (but not all) autogenerated files. It doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing deci

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Denver Gingerich wrote: > > It also appears to install new files with an added "_" (ie. stdlib_.h). You must be using a gnulib checkout that is already a month old or more? We renamed all *_.h files to *.in.h recently. Eric Blake wrote: > Now for some background: there are two schools of thought

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 11/18/2007 5:16 PM: > Hi Denver, > > The .cvsignore behavior works right for me. The ignored files are > precisely those which should be recreated by people running configure on > their individual systems; they shouldn't b

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Denver Gingerich on 11/18/2007 5:03 PM: > I would like to update the gnulib files for the package I'm > maintaining (wdiff) in CVS (I've decided to check-in the gnulib files > so people using CVS don't have to run gnulib). However, runnin

Re: Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-18 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Denver, The .cvsignore behavior works right for me. The ignored files are precisely those which should be recreated by people running configure on their individual systems; they shouldn't be checked in. karl

Updating a package's gnulib files in CVS

2007-11-18 Thread Denver Gingerich
I would like to update the gnulib files for the package I'm maintaining (wdiff) in CVS (I've decided to check-in the gnulib files so people using CVS don't have to run gnulib). However, running "gnulib-tool --import" or "gnulib-tool --update" creates a bunch of files I don't want, such as .cvsigno