Understood. Here is the output of 'cvs -f -d <cvsroot> version' with an invalid repository path:
$ cvs -f -d username@cvshost:/invalid/path version; echo $? Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13 (client/server) Server: Cannot access /invalid/path/CVSROOT No such file or directory 1 And the output using a valid repository path: $ cvs -f -d username@cvshost:/opt/cvs/root version; echo $? Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13 (client/server) Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.22 (client/server) 0 As you might have guessed I substituted the username and host, but the output is the actual output from that command. Here's the output using a valid CVSROOT with the rls command: $ cvs -f -d username@cvshost:/opt/cvs/root rls; echo $? cvs [rls aborted]: server does not support rls 1 On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:24:12 PM UTC-6, David Trowbridge wrote: > > Actually, one question, too. > > Does 'cvs -f -d <cvsroot> version' actually check that the <cvsroot> is > valid, or does it just check that the local cvs binary runs? The goal of > this method is to verify the remote repository. > > -David > > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Jason Woodrich > <jwoo...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Greetings, >> I'm had a problem with adding a CVS repository running on CVS 1.11. I'm >> accessing it using ssh with a key and my CVSROOT is valid. When I click >> Save on the "Add Repository" page it returns the message "A repository was >> not found at the specified path." This is on CentOS 6 with both >> ReviewBoard 1.7.25 and 2.0rc3. >> >> I found that ReviewBoard is attempting to execute the "rls" cvs command, >> which isn't valid until CVS 1.12, which is the 'feature' build. The >> current stable build is 1.11.23 (according to >> http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/). Anyone attempting to >> add a CVS server running anything lower than 1.12 is going to fail. I >> suspect that even if the server was 1.12 the operation would still fail if >> the client is anything less than 1.12. >> >> I found the problem in >> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ReviewBoard-2.0rc3-py2.6.egg/reviewboard/scmtools/cvs.py: >> >> 331 def check_repository(self): >> 332 p = SCMTool.popen(['cvs', '-f', '-d', self.cvsroot, ' >> *rls*'], >> 333 self.local_site_name) >> 334 errmsg = six.text_type(p.stderr.read()) >> 335 if p.wait() != 0: >> 336 raise SCMError(errmsg) >> >> I was able to resolve the issue by substituting 'rls' for 'version' on >> line 332. Since ReviewBoard is just checking for the return code from CVS >> it should function the same. >> >> 331 def check_repository(self): >> 332 p = SCMTool.popen(['cvs', '-f', '-d', self.cvsroot, ' >> *version*'], >> 333 self.local_site_name) >> 334 errmsg = six.text_type(p.stderr.read()) >> 335 if p.wait() != 0: >> 336 raise SCMError(errmsg) >> >> I then did a recompile (python -m compileall .) from the >> reviewboard/scmtools directory and restarted Apache. >> >> Problem solved. Thought you might want to know. Your documentation >> indicates that on RHEL/CentOS you can install CVS using "yum install cvs". >> The version included with CentOS 6 is 1.11.23 and will not work without >> these modifications. >> >> Thanks, >> Jason >> >> -- >> Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >> --- >> Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ >> --- >> Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "reviewboard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to reviewboard...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ --- Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ --- Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
