MacPorts' cvs does not honor case-sensitivity of FS

[Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri]

I solved this for myself by reconfiguring the cvs sources with “--enable-case-sensitivity”. It’s the build filesystem that matters for this port, not the repository nor checkout filesystems.

If I knew how to properly add a “casesensitive” variant for this port, I would propose one.

I tried to modify my local Portfile by adding the following:

variant casesensitive {
    configure.args-append --enable-case-sensitivity
}

… but I either did it in the wrong way or I forgot to do something else.


-- 
Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
System Developer at BILS
Uppsala University, Sweden







> On 07 Nov 2014, at 14:24, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <andreas.kahari at bils.se> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m serving the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS tree to some internal nodes from an Apple iMac computer running MacPorts.
> 
> On a case-sensitive disk image: I rsync the CVS tree from a mirror site (this seems to be irrelevant), I CVS update a checkout of the now local CVS tree, and I rsync the checkout to the internal nodes. The reason for doing it this way is that a local CVS update + rsync is several times quicker than doing the CVS update over the net (even internally).
> 
> This is an example of what I see:
> 
> $ pwd -P
> /Volumes/NetBSD-pkgsrc/pkgsrc/finance
> $ cat CVS/Root
> /Volumes/NetBSD-pkgsrc/pkgsrc-cvs
> $ rm -rf p5-Finance-Quote
> $ cvs -q up -dP
> U p5-Finance-Quote/DESCR
> U p5-Finance-Quote/Makefile
> U p5-Finance-Quote/distinfo
> $ cvs -q up -dP
> ? p5-Finance-Quote
> $ which cvs
> /opt/local/bin/cvs
> 
> There was once a port called “p5-finance-quote” (all lower-cased) that was later renamed. There are a few other directories that have the same problem.
> 
> I’m also unable to check out the “cvs” port:
> 
> $ pwd -P
> /Volumes/NetBSD-pkgsrc/pkgsrc/devel
> $ cvs -q up -dP cvs
> cvs update: warning: directory cvs specified in argument
> cvs update: but CVS uses CVS for its own purposes; skipping cvs directory
> 
> On this filesystem, “cvs” and “CVS” ought to be able to exist in the same directory.
> In fact:
> $ mkdir cvs
> $ ls -F -ldi cvs CVS
> 1077885 drwxr-xr-x  2 akk  staff  170 Nov  7 13:59 CVS/
> 1386192 drwxr-xr-x  2 akk  staff   68 Nov  7 14:17 cvs/
> 
> This makes me believe that the cvs binary actually explicitly ignore case, even though the filesystem is case-sensitive.
> 
> Any way I/someone can fix this?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
> System Developer at BILS
> Uppsala University, Sweden
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