[VANILLA-L:1260] Re: [VANILLA-L:1252] [derek.baum@ssmb.com: CVSROOT/val-tags not updated]

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 05:15:10PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> This is the exact problem that Dave has seen in the server. 

Not quite...but similar.  I thought I had made the solution clear in my
email...

$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/val-tags needs to be read/writable to everyone.  That is,
chmod 666 or 660 it (touch it if it doesn't exist).  Same deal with the
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history file.

You do not need to compromise security to keep $CVSROOT/CVSROOT at 770.

As for Derek's problem, it may be fixed in 1.10.  I do recall a situation
where val-tags would not be updated unless either the local copy was already
in sync with the repository or an explicit 'commit' or 'rtag' is used.  I
ran across this problem while creating dead-end branches in 1.9.

> I do not even know what val-tags does. Anyone want to enlighten me?

Tags have dual meaning in the CVS repository.  It is used to mark specific
names you assign to a source tree state using 'cvs tag' or 'cvs rtag'.
Tags also serve to name branches such as one created by 'cvs tag -b' or
'cvs import ... vendor_branch ...'.  Tags in the source tree can be
added, deleted, moved and overwritten.  So, for checkout/update -r, there
are only a limited number of "valid" tags.  These "valid" tags are stored
in val-tags.

Hope that helps,
Dave

> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Derek Baum <derek.baum@ssmb.com> -----
> 
> > We have an intermittent problem with CVSROOT/val-tags not being updated.
> > 
> > I have not seen any documentation for val-tags, but it appears to
> > contain a list
> > of all valid tags (created via cvs tag). If this file does not contain
> > the tag specified
> > in cvs checkout -r tag, the  checkout fails immediately, rather than
> > searching the
> > whole source tree in the hope of finding a file with the specified tag.
> > 
> > We are occasionally seeing val-tags not updated when cvs tag is run,
> > even although
> > the user has write access to val-tags.
> > 
> > Has anyone seen similar behaviour and is it fixed in 1.10?
> > 
> > We are using CVS 1.9.26 on Solaris 5.5.1
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Derek Baum
> > Salomon Smith Barney
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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