Re: SV: Putting a catalog in a different location...

[Derek R. Price]

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> Thanks.. this excatly what I was looking for. I didn't notice the -d option
> when I looked in the manual - silly me.. I don't quite understand what you
> mean with 'breaking reproducibility of old releases'. If you have a spare
> moment to explain this to me, it would be very nice.

This means that if you were using a structure like:

    newmod          -a newmod-1 newmod-2 newmod-3 newmod-4 newmod-5
    newmod-1        -l -d top-dir             top-dir
    newmod-2           -d top-dir/java        top-dir/java
    newmod-3        -l -d top-dir/misc        top-dir/misc
    newmod-4           -d top-dir/java/images top-dir/misc/images
    newmod-5           -d top-dir/java        top-dir/javalib

from version 0.01 through 2.0 of your software and around 2.1 you decided not
to use javalib anymore so your new modules definitions were:

    newmod          -a newmod-1 newmod-2 newmod-3 newmod-4
    newmod-1        -l -d top-dir             top-dir
    newmod-2           -d top-dir/java        top-dir/java
    newmod-3        -l -d top-dir/misc        top-dir/misc
    newmod-4           -d top-dir/java/images top-dir/misc/images

Then if you went and tried to use my_1_7_tag to check out version 1.7 of newmod
you wouldn't get the javalib directory and presumably the software wouldn't
work.

Derek

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