make tag problem

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Oct 17 07:25:33 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 07:03 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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. 

You should bump the release tag in the devel branch too, because
otherwise it will appear to be "older" than the FC-4 and FC-3 branches.

> 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

Or:

$ make tag TAG_OPTS=-F

Paul.
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