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Re: Patch: modules -vs- Java


On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Geoff Keating wrote:

> If you want to reproduce the actual tarfiles which were released, you
> need to check out not just 'egcs', but 'egcs-full', and
> 'egcs-testsuite', and so on.

If you want to reproduce the actual tarfiles, the CVS modules aren't the
right place to start; e.g., there was an egcs-g77-testsuite distribution
in egcs 1.1.2, but there never was a corresponding module; the
distributions included generated files from wwwdocs, but wwwdocs was not
tagged; the release script was not in CVS then (at least not public CVS)
but presumably did not use the modules (given the egcs-g77-testsuite
distribution), etc..

If the component tarfiles are wanted, the only sensible solution is to put
them in /pub/gcc/old-releases rather than using version-specific modules
to record what was in a particular part of the distribution at a
particular release, which still wouldn't get the files added by the
release script - and if desired, to tag the files in CVS that go into each
component with a tag for the (version, component) pair as well as for the
version.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk


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