Wong, Sam writes:
>
> I am running CVS 1.10 on a Sun Ultra 5 workstation. I'm out of
> disk space on that box and need to move the CVS repository to a
> Sun E250. CVS 1.10.7 is installed on the E250. I have 2 questions.
>
> 1. Can I just copy all of the files in the directory pointed to
> by the CVSROOT directory (/usr/local/cvsroot) on my Ultra 5
> to the new directory (/app/cvs/cvsroot) on my E250 and set up
> environment variables? Is there something else I need to do?
> I want to preserve the version control history in the current
> repository.
Yes. If you're using pserver, you'll have to set up inetd on the new
machine. Assuming the new machine has a different host name than the
current server, you'll need to have everyone that has stuff checked out
update the contents of all the CVS/Root files with the new host name.
> 2. Are there any compatibility issues since I have 2 different
> versions of CVS on the two machines?
No.
-Larry Jones
There's a connection here, I just know it. -- Calvin
