Discussion:
[Bitpim-devel] "-t/-f wrappers not supported" on "cvs update"
Douglas Moon
2004-08-04 05:07:32 UTC
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Hi all,

I'm new to the whole bitpim thing, having gotten 0.7.14 working
partially with my new LG vx7000 in filesystem mode. I was looking at
the mailing list archive about the work being done on this area, and
wanted to be able to contribute possibly. To this end, I got all the
required libraries installed, and went to get the source from cvs.

I got the cvs login to work, and cvs co bitpim worked as well. However,
I went to do a cvs update, just to make sure it would work, and i got
this:

"cvs [update aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported by this version of
CVS"

After some research, I found
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?
docid=768&group_id=1#toccvswrapperslimitations on the main Sourceforge
documentation, which says "A long-standing bug in the handling of the
-t and -f cvswrappers options for remote CVS operations has caused the
CVS authors to disable support of these flags within the CVS software
used by SourceForge.net. Please avoid use of these flags within your
cvswrappers file; they are not supported. In the event that you have
enabled these flags and require SourceForge.net staff assistance in
disabling these flags, please submit a support request."

So, I am assuming that there is something in how your cvs repository is
configured that is causing this?

Platform notes:
Mac OS X 10.3.4 Panther
cvs 1.10 (comes with Xcode 1.2 development kit)
python 2.3 that comes with OS X

Btw, I look forward to helping out with support of the vx7000, if I can
be of any assistance.

D.J. Moon
Roger Binns
2004-08-04 07:49:16 UTC
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I have no idea where you are getting -t/-f wrappers from.

You should cvs login as the anonymous user and then:

cvs co bitpim

Roger
Roger Binns
2004-08-04 07:51:12 UTC
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Post by Roger Binns
I have no idea where you are getting -t/-f wrappers from.
I just spotted you are getting that on update. You should
just be using 'cvs update -dP'

You may be getting the -t/-f flags inadvertently from
$HOME/.cvsrc

Roger
Douglas Moon
2004-08-04 21:15:56 UTC
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I checked in my home directory for cvs preferences files, and found a
.cvswrappers file, which I renamed, and now update works! Thanks for
your help.

D.
Post by Roger Binns
Post by Roger Binns
I have no idea where you are getting -t/-f wrappers from.
I just spotted you are getting that on update. You should
just be using 'cvs update -dP'
You may be getting the -t/-f flags inadvertently from
$HOME/.cvsrc
Roger
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