mklabel

Default

An error occurs if a version label of this type is already attached to some other version of the same element.

–rep/lace

Removes an existing label of the same type from another version of the element:

• From another version on the same branch, if label-type-name was created with mklbtype –pbranch
• From another version anywhere in the element's version tree, if label-type-name was not created with mklbtype –pbranch

No error occurs if there is no such label to remove, but the label is attached to all versions specified in the command.

Default

Creates one or more event records, with commenting controlled by your .versionvault_profile file (default: –nc). See the comments reference page. Comments can be edited with chevent.

–c/omment comment | –cfi/le comment-file-pname |–cq/uery | –cqe/ach | –nc/omment

Overrides the default with the option you specify. See the comments reference page.

Default

None.

label-type-selector

A label type, previously created with mklbtype. The label type must exist in each VOB containing a version to be labeled, or (if label-type-selector is a global type) in the administrative VOB hierarchy associated with each VOB. Specify label-type-selector in the form [lbtype:]type-name[@vob-selector]

Specifying the label type

type-name	Name of the label type
vob-selector	VOB specifier Specify vob-selector in the form [vob:]pname-in-vob
	pname-in-vob	Pathname of the VOB tag (whether or not the VOB is mounted) or of any file system object within the VOB (if the VOB is mounted)

The options and arguments in this section specify elements and their versions directly on the command line. Do not use these options and arguments when using a derived object to provide a list of versions.

pname ...

(Required) One or more path names, indicating versions to be labeled:

• A standard or view-extended path name to an element specifies the version selected in the view.
• A version-extended path name specifies a version, independent of view.

Use –version to override these interpretations of pname.

Note: mklabel differs from some other commands in its default handling of directory element pname arguments: it labels the directory element itself; it does not label the elements cataloged in the directory (unless you specify –recurse).

–ver/sion version-selector

For each pname, attaches the label to the version specified by version-selector. This option overrides both version-selection and version-extended naming. For syntax details, see the version_selector reference page.

When you specify this option with –recurse, mklabel recursively descends directories even if there is no version match for a specified directory—the directory version selected by the view's config spec is used for the recursion.

–r/ecurse

Processes the entire subtree of each pname that is a directory element (including pname itself). VOB symbolic links are not traversed during the recursive descent into the subtree.

When you specify this option with –version, mklabel recursively descends directories even if there is no version match for a specified directory—the directory version selected by the view's config spec is used for the recursion.

When you specify this option, a summary is printed at the completion of this command that lists the number of labeling successes, labeling failures, moved labels, and unchanged labels.

–fol/low

For any VOB symbolic link encountered, labels the corresponding target.

The options and arguments in this section specify versions by selecting them from the configuration records associated with one or more particular derived objects. Do not use these options when specifying elements and versions directly on the command line.

–con/fig do-pname ...

Specifies one or more derived objects. A standard path name or view-extended path name specifies a DO that currently appears in a view. To specify a DO independent of view, use an extended name that includes a DO-ID (for example, hello.obj@@2006-03-24T11:32.412) or a version-extended path name to a DO version.

With the exception of checked-out versions (see Note), mklabel labels all the versions that would be included in a catcr –long –flat –element_only listing of a derived object. Note that this includes the following objects:

• Any DO created by the build and subsequently checked in as a DO version.
• Any file in the CR that was view-private at the time of the build, was converted to an element after the creation of the CR, and has at least one checked-in version.

If a DO's configuration includes multiple versions of the same element, only the most recent version is labeled.

When multiple DOs are specified, –con/fig takes all the elements listed in the configuration records for those DOs.

When you specify this option, a summary is printed at the completion of this command that lists the number of labeling successes, labeling failures, moved labels, and unchanged labels.

Use the following options to modify the list of versions to be labeled.

–sel/ect do-leaf-pattern –ci –typ/e { f | d } ... –nam/e tail-pattern

Modify the set of versions to be labeled in the same way that these options modify a catcr listing. For details, see the catcr reference page, and also the Examples section.

Default

Status messages on the progress of the operation are not suppressed.

–silent

Suppress status messages. Specifying this option can improve the performance of this command when a large number of versions are specified; for example, mklabel –silent –recurse *.