Re: [Gramps-devel] CVS problems

[Bernd S. <sc...@gm...>]

I deleted my whole source tree and checked out everything again. After
making Gramps, I check it out agein and ran into similar problems. See
also below.

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 dpe...@ne... wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Bernd Schandl had this to say:
>
> >For maybe two weeks I have problems when updating from CVS:
> >
> >cvs update: in directory doc/extending-gramps/C/extending-gramps:
> >cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
>
> I believe this message is expressing its discontent at the fact that the
> CVS repository (now) has no record of any files sitting in this directory,
> yet your local repository is requesting info about it. You should go into
> the doc/extending-gramps/C/extending-gramps directory and delete the "CVS"
> subdirectory there.  I believe this should have happened automatically for
> you at one of the updates.  Hmph! The message is certainly annoying, but
> perfectly harmless.  Let me know if it persists after nuke-ing the CVS
> subdirectory mentioned above.

There is no CVS directory in that directory. In the CVS directory on level
below, I have an entry
  D/extending-gramps////
though.

> >cvs server: Updating doc/extending-gramps/C/extending-gramps
> >cvs server: Updating doc/gramps-manual
> >cvs server: Updating doc/gramps-manual/C
> >cvs server: Updating doc/gramps-manual/C/catalog
>
> Hmmm.  Don't know what this (catalog) subdirectory is doing there or what
> it does.  It looks like some kind of accidentsince it doesn't appear to
> contain any useful files... Any ideas Don A?  Should this be removed?
>
> >cvs update: in directory doc/gramps-manual/C/gramps-manual:
> >cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> >cvs server: Updating doc/gramps-manual/C/gramps-manual
> >U doc/gramps-manual/C/gramps-manual/addmedia.png
> >cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries.Log: No such file or directory
>
> Not sure why you're getting this message (or why it's checking for an
> Entries.Log file to begin with).  Try deleting the
> doc/gramps-manual/C/gramps-manual directory and doing a "cvs update -d" to
> regenerate it "cleanly".  Let me know what happens.

Same as before.

> >I guess I can ignore these messages because these directories are all
> >created when making Gramps. But maybe the "make clean" can be made smart
> >enough to delete these directories.
>
> Indeed some of the initial make strategies were 'quick-n-dirty'.  I will
> look into cleaning up and boosting the intelligence of the various make
> targets this week.  Thanks!

	Bernd
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