Greetings: I would be interested in a VMS CVS group.
Here is some background on what I am doing. I use CVS 1.11.1p1 on all platforms. I have CVS client running on DEC OpenVMS V7.2-1. I use pserver. I have CVS running on DEC ALPHA running OSF1 V4.0, SGI running IRIX64 6.5, and IBM AIX. I have CVS repositories on OSF1 and IRIX64. The VMS CVS client is using the OSF1 CVS server. I use CMS on some VMS processors, however, a recent project did not purchase CMS so I am using CVS. I have extensive work with SCCS, RCS, CMVision, CMS, and CVS. I have converted all our CMVision projects to CVS. I greatly prefer UNIX over VMS. However, I have one VMS project using CVS. Current problems I have encountered with the VMS CVS port include: cvs export and checkout error off after handling about 250 files and directories. A work around is to repeat the command until all files are processed. I believe this has been explained to be a problem with the VMS rename program. I would be interested in a fix for this. I learned that a module name cannot start with "d" or "D". For example, I did an import creating a repository with a module name of dips (a Government acronym). The import ran great. I could do rlog and rannotate commands without any problems. But if I tried to do a checkout or export I got a "could not chdir" error. DIPSD->cvs checkout dips/ssies_gdas/apga/apga.for cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to dips/ssies_gdas/apga: invalid argument This was strange because I have other modules that work fine. I finally renamed the module and the "could not chdir" problem vanished. On the server side, I did a "mv $CVSROOT/dips $CVSROOT/vms_dips" and now checkout and export both work. I believe CVS might be seeing the starting d in the module name as a "d" option on the checkout and export command. If this is true there may be other options on other cvs commands that could present a problem. Please let me know if a VMS group is formed. Thanks, Dale Miller -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Spinler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS on VMS mailing list ? Folks: I'm writing you this because I see from browsing info-cvs and bug-cvs that you are all developing or using cvs client on VMS, with varying degrees of success. Recently I have started doing the same, using CVS 1.11 (?p1? - sorry I'm at home right now & my VMS box is at work) with patches obtained from the net. Would you be interested in forming a CVS on VMS mailing list to discuss issues surrounding this port ? If mail.gnu.org can't provide such, I could. Please let me know if you're interested in a vms specific forum for discussions of CVS. Thanks, -- Pat p.s. are patches better sent to info-cvs, bug-cvs or some other place ? p.p.s. which forum to ask questions about flow of control & logic in the code ? _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
