make tag problem

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:30 -0400, Deji Akingunola wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/16/05, Wart <wart at kobold.org> wrote:
>         
>         
>         Can anyone help me fix this tagging problem?
>         
>         [wart at owl devel]$ make build
>         tcllib.spec not tagged with tag tcllib-1_8-1_fc5
>         make: *** [build] Error 1
>         
>         [wart at owl devel]$ make tag
>         cvs tag  -c tcllib-1_8-1_fc5 
>         For more information on using the Fedora CVS repositories,
>         please visit
>         http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UsingCvs
>         ? tcllib-1.7.tar.bz2
>         ERROR: Tag tcllib-1_8-1_fc5 has been already created. 
>         The following tags have been created so far
>         tcllib-1_7-2:devel:wart:1120847978
>         tcllib-1_7-3_fc5:devel:wart:1128308939
>         tcllib-1_7-3_fc3:FC-3:wart:1128355743
>         tcllib-1_7-3_fc4:FC-4:wart:1128355770
>         tcllib-1_7-3_fc2:FC-2:wart:1128544609 
>         tcllib-1_8-1_fc5:devel:wart:1129504487
>         cvs tag: Pre-tag check failed
>         cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!
>         make: *** [tag] Error 1
>         
>         --Mike
> 
> I just experienced a similar issue. I just bumped the release tag, and
> re-run cvs commit to work around it. 

Another approach which can be applied if a package had not yet been
released, is to shift the CVS-tag by force:
# cvs tag -F tcllib-1_8-1_fc5

An even better approach would be to fix this annoying and broken "tag
check" inside of the buildsystem :(

Ralf

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