How to remove wrong tag in CVS?

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Sat Jun 16 08:50:57 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:56:46 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> 
>> 2007/6/15, Marcin Zajączkowski:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to update my package and due to old common directory make tagged
>>> by devel directory with isomaster-1_0-1_fc7. Later I updated it and the
>>> right tag was made, but I have obvious problem with F-7 branch.
>>> I tried to remove wrong tag, but without success:
>>>
>>> [szpak at szpak devel]$ cvs tag -d isomaster-1_0-1_fc7
>>> ERROR: Tag removal not allowed for tag isomaster-1_0-1_fc7
>>> cvs tag: Pre-tag check failed
>>> cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it possible to remove that tag?
>>> Or I have to bump release number to be able to make F-7 tag?
> 
>> IIRC it was possible with TAG_OPTS= -R or sth like that. Take a look
>> at cvsadminprocedure wiki page.
> 
> cvs tag --help
> 
> For the ordinary case of moving a tag on an incomplete set of files,
> it is TAG_OPTS=-F, but you cannot move tags between branches anyway,
> so better bump release and don't worry anymore. This is "devel".
> 

Or just do the following for the real F-7 package:

Release: X%{?dist}.1

That will give it a different tag and a lower EVR then F-8/devel

Regards,

Hans




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