Re: CVS and PAM

2001-06-29 Thread Karl-Heinz Marbaise
Hi Konrad, I PAM'ificed CVS 1.11.1p1: the company I work for plans to unify the login structure via LDAP, but that doesn't yet work with CVS, so I just modified it a little bit to use PAM. I hope this patch is useful for some of you. You should have searched a little bit more for

RE: rcs graphical gui?

2001-06-29 Thread Ian Gilmour
Thanks, I know about (X)emacs capabilities, I use it all the time myself. But I was looking for something more standalone, that possibly integrates with tkdiff. Not all our users use (x)emacs, and they might find the learning curve less user friendly than driving rcs from the command line. Any

Re: cvs status not showing unknown files ?

2001-06-29 Thread Olivier Fambon
Larry Jones [Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:46:25 -0400 (EDT)] wrote: Olivier Fambon writes: If I have a directory under CVS, and a file _not_ under CVS in it, say bz.txt, cvs status does not report the usual: ? bz.txt Yep, that's the way status works. Well, that's how it works if using the

Re: cvs diff problem

2001-06-29 Thread Matthew Riechers
Boris wrote: Hello info-cvs, I have a little (misunderstanding?) problem with cvs diff, I hope someone can help me -(( I just want to create a diff file from the beginning of a project until the latest version, tagged as Feature08. The start tag is start. Normally, hey just use

Re: Strange dir behavior and Emptydir

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Pyatt, Scott writes: We are currently running over 100 clients around the world connecting to a single server. Both client and server CVS versions are 1.10. To fix this problem, would I need to upgrade the client or server or both? If the problem is in the client, can I run a 1.11.1p1

Re: doc on establishing pserver ...

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Daniel Beckham writes: I think it's quite odd that it works like this, but I think the reasons are that cvs was never meant to serve remote requests. It was meant to be a local tool on a local filesystem. It just happens that rsh/ssh allow you to remotely execute any unix shell command in

Help regarding moving multiple repositories into one place is appreciated

2001-06-29 Thread Datla, Raghav
Hi all, I have the following situation. Right now we have two repositories for two different projects on two different servers. The CVS servers for the two projects are present on sun boxes. The developers are directly telnetting into the server and checking out the modules or files in to their

Re: rcs graphical gui?

2001-06-29 Thread Robert J. Clark
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:04:55 +0100 Ian Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I know about (X)emacs capabilities, I use it all the time myself. But I was looking for something more standalone, that possibly integrates with tkdiff. Not all our users use (x)emacs, and they might find the

Re: Strange dir behavior and Emptydir - root cause

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Pyatt, Scott writes: If I understand correctly, CVS version 1.11.1p1 solves the problem of inadvertently creating directories in $CVSROOT/Emptydir, but what about the root cause of this problem which is CVS losing track of which repository directory is mapped to the workspace directory when

Re: doc on establishing pserver ...

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Jonathan M. Gilligan writes: cvs is designed to leak memory like a sieve and to exit from the middle of deeply nested function calls. To make it a persistent process would require a rewrite from the ground up. Hardly. CVS does *not* leak memory like a sieve; recent versions run the

CVS/file,t

2001-06-29 Thread Andy Baker
I give up... can't find any references to ,t files anywhere... what /are/ they??? $ cvs status cvs_tag ; ls -l CVS === File: cvs_tag Status: Up-to-date Working revision:1.1.2.5 Fri Jun 29 13:24:49 2001

RE: rcs graphical gui?

2001-06-29 Thread Ian Gilmour
Yes I know about TKCVS - but I thought it only worked only on CVS archives. Or can it handle plain RCS ones too? cheers, Ian -Original Message- From: Robert J. Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:07 PM To: Ian Gilmour Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

CVSup Problems

2001-06-29 Thread Brad Pfautsch
Title: CVSup Problems Debian 2.2 r2 CVS 1.11 CVSup 16.1-3 I'm having some strange problems with CVSup. I am attempting to mirror the cvs repository on another Linux machine configured with same software. When I run 'cvsup supfile' this is what happens. Connected to 'server ip address'

Re: rcs graphical gui?

2001-06-29 Thread Robert J. Clark
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:58:40 +0100 Ian Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I know about TKCVS - but I thought it only worked only on CVS archives. Or can it handle plain RCS ones too? Whoops, soory about that. I had a bit of a brain lock while reading this thread and I could have sworn

Re: CVS/file,t

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Andy Baker writes: I give up... can't find any references to ,t files anywhere... what /are/ they??? They hold the creation log message for newly added file (the argument to -m). As soon as you do the first commit, they disappear. -Larry Jones Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their

CVS Manual

2001-06-29 Thread Aulner,Wayne
Is the CVS manual available for download? I went to http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html but there is not like to download. Thanks... Wayne Aulner Open Port/ESO Application Developer CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any included attachments are from Cerner Corporation and are

RE: CVS/file,t

2001-06-29 Thread Andy Baker
...but as you can see, I have committed. Indeed I'm even up to a fifth revision. Strange. Guess something must have hiccuped and left the file lying around. Thanks Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] They hold the creation log message for newly

Re: CVS and PAM

2001-06-29 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
Hi Karl Heinz, On Friday 29 June 2001 09:06, Karl-Heinz Marbaise wrote: Hi Konrad, I PAM'ificed CVS 1.11.1p1: the company I work for plans to unify the login structure via LDAP, but that doesn't yet work with CVS, so I just modified it a little bit to use PAM. I hope this patch is

Keeping a checked out copy - slightly improved code

2001-06-29 Thread Jakub Narebski
I'm sending you the slightly improved code for keeping a checked out copy, using loginfo and autoexport filter, based on code from CVS Infopages, http://www.cvshome.org/dev/text2/sklar CVSROOT/loginfo has something like DEFAULT(cat /tmp/cvs.exp.$USER 21; (sleep 2; \

Re[2]: cvs diff problem

2001-06-29 Thread Boris
Hello Matthew, Friday, June 29, 2001, 3:04:37 PM, you wrote: MR What about 'cvs diff -r 1.1 -r Feature08'? That was not working, too -( But the night was long, and was reading the dox carefully. After a short sleep hehe I found the solution. I needed the option -N to include newer files,

Re: CVS Manual

2001-06-29 Thread Matthew Riechers
Aulner,Wayne wrote: Is the CVS manual available for download? I went to http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html but there is not like to download. Check http://cvshome.org/docs -Matt ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVS Manual

2001-06-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, June 29, 2001 at 11:08:47 (-0500), Aulner,Wayne wrote: ] Subject: CVS Manual Is the CVS manual available for download? Of course! It's part of the main source archive. Download that and you have the manual (and associated documentation, such as Berliner's CVS-II paper, the

RE: CVS Manual

2001-06-29 Thread Aulner,Wayne
Thanks a lot... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 11:47 AM To: Aulner,Wayne Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: CVS Manual [ On Friday, June 29, 2001 at 11:08:47 (-0500), Aulner,Wayne wrote: ] Subject: CVS Manual Is

Re: CVS/file,t

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Andy Baker writes: ...but as you can see, I have committed. Indeed I'm even up to a fifth revision. Strange. Guess something must have hiccuped and left the file lying around. Most likely. The only obvious thing I can think of would be if you did the add in local mode (which would create

Anon. pserver checkout err.- checkout requires write access to the repository

2001-06-29 Thread Saul Hernández
I am attempting to set up a CVS repository with anonymous pserver read-only access. My server configuration is: Red Hat Linux 7 cvs 1.11-1 My client configuration is: WinCVS 1.2 To set up anonymous pserver access, I have the following settings in my repository: /CVSROOT/readers contains

Re: Anon. pserver checkout err.- checkout requires write access to the repository

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Saul Hernández writes: cvs [server aborted]: checkout requires write access to the repository Read-only access was broken in 1.11.1 -- that was the reason it was almost immediately replaced by 1.11.1p1. Get it from www.cvshome.org. -Larry Jones Bad news, Mom. I promised my soul to the

Updating docs on www.gnu.org

2001-06-29 Thread Matthew Von-Maszewski
Anyone, Got pserver running just fine for a remote user thanks to Larry Jones, Eric Siegerman, and Chris Metcalf. My apologies for the trouble. Note: it never occurred to me that www.gnu.org would have the current software and an outdated manual. Things became clear, cool, and (most

MultiSite CVS

2001-06-29 Thread Peter Fox
Hi, I'm currently looking at CVS and would very much like to get it working in a multisite environment. Looking around the web the University of Washington has some excellent information on how to run CVS in a master/slave relationship and be able to develop on the slave. See

Re: Anon. pserver checkout err.- checkout requires write access to the repository

2001-06-29 Thread Saul Hernández
cvs [server aborted]: checkout requires write access to the repository Read-only access was broken in 1.11.1 -- that was the reason it was almost immediately replaced by 1.11.1p1. Get it from www.cvshome.org. -Larry Jones That fixed the problem. Thanks, Larry!

Re: rcs graphical gui?

2001-06-29 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:04 +0100, Ian Gilmour wrote: [ ... RCS frontends for command line challenged users ... ] Thanks, I know about (X)emacs capabilities, I use it all the time myself. But I was looking for something more standalone, that possibly integrates with tkdiff. Not all our

Re: doc on establishing pserver ...

2001-06-29 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 16:32 -0500, Daniel Beckham wrote: It doesn't work as a daemon. You either have to use it as a pserver with inetd (or whatever flavor of inetd) or you have to use rsh/ssh/etc to connect and execute the cvs command remotely. That's absolutely OK for a tool which

Problems with branching in CVS

2001-06-29 Thread berry
I am having trouble with branching in CVS. Can someone explain what I am doing wrong? I checked out the source for program agc into /src/esproc/agc/ directory. I then created a branch tag cvs tag -b root_of_daves_branch within the working directory. Then I checked the source out again:

Re: Problems with branching in CVS

2001-06-29 Thread berry
Larry, ato:/users/721/berry/src/esproc/agc% cvs status -v cvs status: Examining . === File: agc.c Status: Locally Modified Working revision:200.10.2.1.2.1 Fri Jun 29 20:13:23 2001 Repository revision:

Re: Problems with branching in CVS

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
berry writes: cato:/users/721/berry/src% cvs commit esproc/agc cvs commit: Examining esproc/agc cvs commit: sticky tag `200.10.2.1' for file `esproc/agc/agc.c' is not a branch cvs commit: sticky tag `200.10.2.1' for file `esproc/agc/agc.h' is not a branch cvs commit: sticky tag

RE: CVS Manual

2001-06-29 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
Wayne, You might want to consider Fogel's book as well. http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ In my opinion it's worth the $$ to get it if you're starting from scratch. Even cheaper at www.bookpool.com Jeanie ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with branching in CVS

2001-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
berry writes: File: agc.c Status: Locally Modified Working revision:200.10.2.1.2.1 Fri Jun 29 20:13:23 2001 Repository revision: 200.10.2.1.2.1 /cm/cvs/esproc/agc/agc.c,v Sticky Tag: 200.10.2.1.2.1 Sticky Date: (none) Sticky Options:

merging 2 versions

2001-06-29 Thread Deepak Khugher
Hi, I am trying to merge two branches (both sticky) using the following command in a checked out copy of Revision2 cvs update -j Revision1 -j Revision2 OR cvs update -j Revision1 -j Revision2 file1 In the former case I get the output stating Updating Dir1 In the latter case I donot get any

Errors and missing information in node loginfo in cvs.info

2001-06-29 Thread Jakub Narebski
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server) The information about expanding format string in loginfo is wrong. The details are below (at the end of this file). There is no information about format of input to command specified in loginfo file. As far as I tested this format is

RE: Errors and missing information in node loginfo in cvs.info

2001-06-29 Thread Gianni Mariani
Jakub, I find the loginfo interface unreasonably difficult, regardless of documentation errors you note below. There are too many inconsistantcies that I decided to patch it and create a non-shell program as the loginfo parser and added some extra loginfo filter elements that means I don't