[ATTN maintainer] rcs
Dr. Volker Zell
dr.volker.zell@oracle.com
Thu Jul 3 13:10:00 GMT 2014
>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> On Jun 29 20:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>
>> I've developed a patch for the infamous and two-year-old rcs bug that
>> destroys data, based on the analysis by Peter Wagemans and an earlier
>> demonstration script by Don Hatch. The patch has been sent upstream,
>> but there was no reaction for the last week:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs/2772
>>
>> I have compiled test packages for both architectures including this
>> patch.
>>
>> # The first line sets up shell variable wget, to be used by all later lines
>> # simply paste into the shell from here
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> wget="wget -rxnH http://cygwin.stromeko.net/x86_64/release/"
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1-src.tar.xz
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>> $wget/rcs/setup.hint
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/rcs-debuginfo-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/setup.hint
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> # The first line sets up shell variable wget, to be used by all later lines
>> # simply paste into the shell from here
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> wget="wget -rxnH http://cygwin.stromeko.net/x86/release/"
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1-src.tar.xz
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>> $wget/rcs/setup.hint
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/rcs-debuginfo-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/setup.hint
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> Volker was supposed to be abroad until end of June. Are you back
> Volker? Any spare cycles to have a look?
Hi Corinna
Yes, just 2 days ago, and I have to catch up with real work again. It
also looks like I can't do any cygwin work until begin if august, sorry.
It would be nice if Achim takes over rcs, as I don't use it anymore
these days. It's already cygported...
> Thanks,
> Corinna
Thanks
Volker
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