"make tag" failure doesn't fail right?

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Sun Nov 15 09:35:05 UTC 2009


2009/11/15 Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>:
> I did:
>
>        $ make tag
>
>
> and got:
>
>        cvs tag  -c openvrml-0_18_3-11_fc13
>        cvs tag: openvrml.spec is locally modified
>        cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!
>
> Whoops.  And so I proceeded to commit the outstanding changes that I'd
> forgotten to commit.  Once I'd done that, I went to tag again:
>
>        $ make tag
>        cvs tag  -c openvrml-0_18_3-11_fc13
>        ERROR: Tag openvrml-0_18_3-11_fc13 has been already created.
>        The following tags have been created so far
>        .
>        .
>        .
>        openvrml-0_18_3-11_fc13:devel:braden:1258273475
>        cvs tag: Pre-tag check failed
>        cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!
>
> Uh oh.
>
> Did my previous "make tag" actually succeed?

But not for your spec file. You could increase the Release version in
your spec file, commit the changes, and run make tag normally. Or use:
TAG_OPTS=-F make tag

WARNING! The latter only as long as you have not built the package!

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_CVS_FAQ_for_package_maintainers#How_to_request_builds.3F

-- 
LG Thomas

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