Subject: Re: date feature request
To: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/16/2006 19:51:21
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:06:08 -0500, "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:05:35AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 03:26:54PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> >> /usr/src/gnu/dist/cvs/lib/getdate.y
> >
> >I use NetBSD 3.0.0, but I don't find this on the system.
>
> I don't have 3.0.0 sources handy but you would need to checkout
> /usr/src from cvs to see it. (I'm sure it's there)
>
> humm... for reasons I cannot explain
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/gnu/dist/xcvs/lib/
> this _is_ the path required in cvsweb (nb xcvs)
> and I don't see a 3-0 tag.
>
I think the directory was renamed from cvs to xcvs to avoid conflicts with
CVS on systems with case-insensitive file systems, i.e., MacOS.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb