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  • From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry AT mac.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] snapshots stuck
  • Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:58 -0500


On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:45 AM, James K. Lowden wrote:

The *assumption* that MD5 worked on the tree, I never questioned. Argh!

Yipee! I love it when wild guesses turn out to be right. It partially makes up for all the things I'm supposed to know but don't :-).

The way home is now short. I think "find freetds -ls" | md5 will work
fine. Or, for that matter, "md5 freetds/ChangeLog".

Yes, it had occurred to me that Changelog would do the trick as long as it's updated consistently. If for some reason you really did want to scan the entire directory tree, it might be easier with Perl and Digest::MD5 than with md5 and shell builtins.

Does CVS not have a change number, or a changeset or commit ID that
could be compare with a previous one?

No. Subversion uses a repository-wide version number, though, and
Frediano and I both want to switch. That's a future possibility: instead
of ".dev.{date}" the development version could be ".svn.{revision}".

SourceForge now apparently supports git and Mercurial, among others. I would encourage you to look at those before deciding on Subversion.

I don't actually see how make dist could work anywhere
unless cp means something rather different on Linux than in BSDish
places.

You might not be aware the distribution tarballs are generated on a NetBSD
system.


I think it was mentioned in your snapshot script but I had forgotten it when I wrote that. Basically on OS X

% cp foo/file.dat bar/

fails when the bar directory does not exist. Maybe on NetBSD it automatically creates intervening directories or fails silently?

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