Re: Corrupt binaries in CVS (was: Snort 1.8.1 WIN32 MSSQL)

[Olaf Schreck <chakl () syscall de>]

> In short, what you're seeing is caused by a "feature" of CVS.  It needs to
> be told to handle binary files specially, to preserve the binary content so
> they don't become corrupt.  From what I understand, this is not currently
> happening with the standard check-in/check-out commands.  In your particular
> case, the library files are altered either when they are checked into CVS,
> or when they are checked out of CVS.  I'm not sure which it is, and
> unfortunately I haven't had time to investigate this problem any further
> yet.

Anyone who wants to checkin binary files into CVS should use the -kb flag.  
This tells CVS to take the file as-is, without any keyword substitutions or 
NL->CR conversion.  If -kb is used on checkin, it becomes a "sticky tag", 
so anyone doing a checkout gets served with -kb enabled implicitly.


ciao,
chakl

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