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Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +0000, Michael Lemke wrote:
>Igor Peshansky <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
>>On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote:
>>>After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils,
>>>cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. [snip] $ cvs
>>>co test cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. No such file or directory
>>
>>This was a bug in Cygwin 1.5.19, which returned the wrong error code
>>for creating this directory, and CVS didn't know to ignore it. Try a
>>snapshot.
>
>I've been wondering when we'll see the fix for that in a non-snapshot
>release. I've been waiting for it since 1.5.19 came out (many months
>ago). Sure, I could use a snapshot but I'd rather use something not in
>a state of flux. How hard would it be to make a 1.5.19-5 with that
>fix?
Not going to happen. Help the community. Use a snapshot.
Either that or suffer silently. Those are your options.
cgf
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