Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4005EF75.3000501@picturel.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:40:05 -0800 From: Gus Baldauf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated: cvs-1.11.6-3 [Requires cygwin-1.5.3+] References: <3F581C4E DOT 5030403 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <3F581C4E.5030403@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi, when I update my cvs repository to be compatible with cygwin-1.5.x as described in the announcement below, I get the error: gdbm fatal: read error 6 records loaded What am I doing wrong? -Gus Charles Wilson wrote: > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > !!!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!!!! > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > There has been a CHANGE in the on-disk format > of gdbm database files, due to the cygwin-1.3.22--cygwin-1.5.x > 32bit--64bit transition. This affects all programs which > use gdbm -- including cvs. You MUST update your on-disk > databases immediately after updating to > > cvs-1.11.6-3 > libgdbm4-1.8.3-7 > > To do this, use the 'convert-gdbm' script included in the > gdbm-1.8.3-7 and newer packages: > > today=`date +%Y%m%d` > cd ${CVSROOT}/CVSROOT > cp modules.db modules.db.${today} > cp val-tags.db val-tags.db.${today} > convert-gdbm modules.db > convert-gdbm val-tags.db > > (If you have been using the test versions of gdbm and cvs, and have > already updated your databases, there is no need to do so again) > > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > !!!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!!!! > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > CVS is the 'Concurrent Versioning System', a widely-used package for > maintianing revision histories of source code. This port is based on > the official cvs-1.11.6 release, and requires that libgdbm4-1.8.3-7 be > installed as well. > > This release is built against the cygwin-1.5.x kernel; it will not work > with 1.3.22. > > CHANGES: > > * updated to the latest release > * compiled against cygwin-1.5.2 kernel > * documentation moved to /usr/share/* > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/