On Sun, 05 Jul 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Ah! /cvsroot/ vs. /cvs/ - but I don't understand. For :ext: one uses > /cvs/webwml but for :pserver: one has to use /cvsroot/webwml? Can > someone explain that to me pretty please? What's the rationale for this, > what's the deal with it, and why isn't it consistent?
The pserver is restricted in a chroot and explicitely list the authorized paths: the chroot: /srv/alioth.debian.org/chroot (aka /var/lib/gforge/chroot) the restricting script: /usr/share/gforge/plugins/scmcvs/sbin/cvs-pserver > That might very well be because /cvs and /cvsroot points to *different* > targets: No, that is irrelevant for the pserver (in the chroot cvs points to cvsroot). And both /cvs/webwml /cvsroot/webwml works for :ext:. > It has nothing to do with using cvs.debian.org vs. > cvs.alioth.debian.org. It has to do that /cvs/ and /cvsroot/ points to > different locations. It looks pretty much like symlinking from hell, if > you ask me. %-/ We might do cleanup with time, but for now it was easier to transition cvs.debian.org that way without merging it in all the other CVS repositories. > Why can't /cvs just also point to > /srv/alioth.debian.org/chroot/cvsroot? Otherwise we would have had all Alioth CVS repositories listed on http://cvs.debian.org and not the old archived ones that are currently there. Since only webwml is actively used, I did put this one among the other active ones. > I guess this might solve this problems, and I can't come up with any > reason to only allow some few submodules through /cvs than what one can > access through /cvsroot - > other by wanting to force people to transition. Is that the intention? > If so then pretty please be verbose about it and not let people stumble > into troubles and then tell them to switch... Well, I did not want to force anyone to transition. The official path for gforge based CVS repositories is /cvsroot and since for cvs.debian.org it was /cvs I put the symlink. I did not pay attention to the pserver restriction until now... and if we want to get rid of it, we have to modify /usr/share/gforge/plugins/scmcvs/sbin/cvs-pserver and merge that change in the gforge Alioth branch. Roland, is that something that you want to do or should we generally recommend to switch to /cvsroot? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
