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

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

This is the exact problem that Dave has seen in the server. 

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


----- 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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