[rancid] Re: Controlling Version numbers in CVS

[Alex DEKKER]

On Monday 22 March 2010 07:53:30 Gregers Paludan Nakman wrote:
 
> I tried to use this command with one config file in the cvs. It worked J
>  the revision number was updated and everything looked good, until I looked
>  in the log files of rancid.
> 
> Rancid was not able to update the config files anymore. L I might have done
> something wrong, but I don't know what.

I would guess you ran this command as a user [eg root] other than the one you 
run RANCID as [eg rancid]. Check the ownership/permissions on RANCIDs files.

> John Heasley wrote to me:
> 
> "I know of no way to jump revisions in cvs or svn. "
> 
> 
> 
> So I guess that this feature is not available in Rancid (yet?)

It would be a feature of your version control system, not RANCID.

alexd