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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: something weird with perl in CVS?
From:       Maurice Janssen <maurice () z74 ! net>
Date:       2010-10-31 15:58:02
Message-ID: 4CCD920A.9040400 () z74 ! net
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Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Maurice Janssen <maurice@z74.net> wrote:
>> A few days ago, I extracted the src.tar.gz from the 4.8 CDROM and
>> synchronized the src tree to -stable through CVS.  I expected to see
>> about 5 files being changed, but to my surprise a lot (all?) files in
>> src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/ were also updated.
>> This seems weird, because as far as I know, no commits were done to CVS
>> in the perl directory with a OPENBSD_4_8 tag and certainly not so many.
>>
>> I looked at a few files for the differences and until know I've seen only
>> changes in the comments, for example:
>> (src0/ is a clean copy from src.tar.gz from the CDROM, src/ is synced
>> through CVS to OPENBSD_4_8)
> ...
>> Does anybody know what has happened?
> 
> There was a late change in the keyword substitution mode for those
> files.  That's a per-file mode (note that it's *not* per-revision
> per-mode) and there are no email messages generated for them, just as
> no messages generated for imports.
> 
> 
>> I assume that my src tree (after
>> syncing with CVS and therefore with all the 'new' files in
>> gnu/usr.bin/perl) is still suitable for building 4.8-stable.  Is this
>> assumption correct?
> 
> Yep, it's good.

OK, thanks for your answer.

Maurice

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