[18928] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.22: rcs under athena solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Apr 25 12:37:51 2001
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:37:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Angie Kelic <sly@mit.edu>
cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
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Hum. Y'know, those campus-map problems WERE on a Sun. Very interesting,
thanks. I use the Sun diff all the time and I haven't noticed a problem,
but then, I can't recall using it to compare binaries.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Angie Kelic wrote:
> Playing with things some, it seems that it is Solaris diff that
> is broken. Running the RCS binaries out of the gnu locker works
> (I believe they use gdiff), though the binaries in the gnu locker
> are old.
>
> Using my Linux machines (with or without -kb even) allows checkin
> of binaries with no problem. (This seems to be the most consistent
> and least error prone workaround).
>
> I suspect this is some sort of failure in Solaris diff that would need
> to get bug reported to Sun. Perhaps it's fixed in 9.0, or perhaps
> a version of RCS that uses gdiff and a version of gdiff could get
> placed in /usr/athena/bin for Solaris.
>
> --Angie
>
> >I am surprised this works properly under Linux! I've used RCS on a slew of
> >platforms over the years and it was my opinion that it just didn't handle
> >binaries well, period, with or without -kb.
> >
> >I'd be interested to know if someone else has a way of repairing the
> >problem Angie encountered (as opposed to preventative measures, like
> >"don't use RCS on binaries") that doesn't destroy the version record.
> >(Deleting the ,v file by hand and checking the file in freshly solves it,
> >but that's less than optimal.)
> >
> >I ran into this a couple of times last year with some campus-map files;
> >the original author had put all the GIFs in RCS and several of them
> >flunked checkin in this way when replaced.
> >
> >On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Angie Kelic wrote:
> >
> >> System name: tomcat.mit.edu
> >> Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.22 (with mkserv)
> >> Display type: cgsix
> >>
> >> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> >> Window manager: fvwm2
> >>
> >> What were you trying to do?
> >> Check a binary file into RCS. The file was created using
> >> rcs -kb and checked out using co -kb so I should have been able
> >> to check it back in.
> >>
> >> What's wrong:
> >> When I tried to check the file back in (ci -u) I got the
> >> following error
> >>
> >> >> .
> >> Binary files /tmp/deLaa43 and /tmp/T2PGa433 differ
> >> ci: RCS/nointel.sav.bin,v: diff failed
> >> ci aborted
> >>
> >>
> >> What should have happened:
> >> It should Just Work(TM) like it does under linux
> >>
> >
>
