Re: How to get list of tags?

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek R. Price writes: Well, you missed at least one link: http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC134 Like Tom, I don't see any description of the output format there. Well, the record types were listed. I thought I recalled that being the question

Re: How to get list of tags?

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: But they're listed in the context of specifying the record types to extract -- it requires a major leap of faith to infer that they have something to do with the output as well. (And as people who have read The Phantom Tollbooth know, jumping to conclusions can get you

Re: How to get list of tags?

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2001, Shailesh Garg wrote: I am not able to find any command that give me list of all the builds. I recently installed CVS and moved all source from microsoft VSS. It's all working fine from last three weeks. I second that. I inherited a

Re: logging in automatically

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Harald Kucharek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to build an automatic build script via ant. I can't work out how to by-pass the password authentication required by cvs, to make the build process a simple one-click and wait procedure. The doco on the

Re: hidding file from checkout

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Jeeva Chelladhurai wrote: Hi, I have tones of obsoleted file in my repository, I don't want the developers to get them when they do check outs. Would I be able to hide them from check outs? RTFM: 'cvs rm -f' Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect (

Re: Using cvs for websites:

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Todd Mortensen wrote: I have used cvs in the past to manage small projects, This is the first time I have used it to manage a php website. The setup I did is as follows. I imported the document root of the website. Then removed that copy and checked out a fresh copy from the repository

Re: Beginner Question: I wanna see my changes!

2001-05-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Krapp, Philipp wrote: but I can't see the changes on the server. The file is still the same and doesn't gets updated after my commit! 'cvs update'? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CollabNet (

Re: Problem with CVS

2001-05-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Spinelli, Francois wrote: Hello, One of my colleagues is trying to connect a server to use is CVS application. This server is located on the Internet zone. Apparently, this application tries to use only port 2401. And our proxy doesn't really like this port. What can we do to solve this

Re: Secure Connections

2001-05-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Thornley, David wrote: BTW, I've run into an inconvenience. In the process of checking over one another's code, we're constantly using CVS in other people's directories (primarily cvs diff). Is there a way to avoid having to cvs login in every new account accessed, since the trees in

CVS SSL

2001-05-21 Thread Derek R. Price
I just submitted an almost complete patch to enable SSL with CVS via the stunnel application to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if anybody wants to play with it. I think it is stuck on a stupid stunnel bug/misconfiguration since almost everything works, but I most likely won't have time to deal with it for a

Re: CVS SSL

2001-05-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Derek R. Price wrote: Hmmm come to think of it I never tried sticking tcpclient in in place of stunnel to test the stunnel bug theory... that may be a good place to start for anyone who has time. Okay, I take that back. I just tried sticking tcpserver in in place of stunnel and my

Re: CVS SSL

2001-05-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Monday, May 21, 2001 at 17:12:11 (-0400), Derek R. Price wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS SSL P.S. the following script is necessary to use tcpclient with the patch: [dprice@empress ccvs-ssl]$ cat tmp.sh #! /bin/sh cat 6 cat 7 tell tcpclient to exec

Re: cvs under Windows

2001-05-18 Thread Derek R. Price
litter wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if I'm sending this to the right person in the right way, forgive me if I'm wrong. I'm a user of cvs under Win98/NT and we use cvs with archives on both Windows and Unix machines, across Samba. Mapping a Unix share onto a drive letter using Samba, then

Re: val-tags issue (was: CVS 1.11.1 Released)

2001-04-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek R. Price writes: Date: Saturday April 28, 2001 @ 22:25 Author: dprice Now *THAT'S* what I call good response time! :-) Unfortunately, they already made me promise to give the time machine back. :) Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions

CVS 1.11.1p1 diff bug fix (was Re: CVS 1.11.1 release.)

2001-04-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Dan York wrote: Derek, Actually, I'm pretty certain that the server is the only one that needs to be upgraded for the diff fix if you're using client/server. I probably should have noted that in the NEWS file, but I wasn't positive. I know that the reverse is true - upgrading just

Re: val-tags issue (was: CVS 1.11.1 Released)

2001-04-27 Thread Derek R. Price
Ingolf Steinbach wrote: Hi, could someone with write permissions please make sure that cvs1-11-1 is in CVSROOT/val-tags? Thanks. % cvs up -r cvs1-11-1 cvs [server aborted]: cannot write /home2/cvsroot/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied % cat CVS/Root :pserver:[EMAIL

Re: val-tags issue (was: CVS 1.11.1 Released)

2001-04-27 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Todd Denniston writes: thor:~/cvs/repo/ccvs$ cvs -z2 update cvs [server aborted]: update requires write access to the repository thor:~/cvs/repo/ccvs$ cat CVS/Root :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/cvsroot thor:~/cvs/repo/ccvs$ Sorry, folks -- I broke read-only

Re: val-tags issue (was: CVS 1.11.1 Released)

2001-04-27 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek R. Price writes: (And make the val-tags file world-writable if you didn't already.) I thought you rendered this unecessary? It's no longer strictly necessary, but it's still a good idea. Why? I'd rather have any anonymous users coming in as nobody

Re: val-tags issue (was: CVS 1.11.1 Released)

2001-04-27 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Sorry, folks -- I broke read-only access in CVS 1.11.1. I've just checked in a fix. Is this something you could write a sanity case for? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CollabNet (

CVS 1.11.1p1 released!!!

2001-04-27 Thread Derek R. Price
There was a minor bug in 1.11.1 preventing read-only checkouts. This release fixes it. NEWS FILE: http://cvshome.org/dev/NEWS-1.11.1p1.txt DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: http://cvshome.org/download.html DOWNLOAD DIRECT: ftp://ftp.cvshome.org/pub or http://ftp.cvshome.org Source patches

CVS 1.11.1 Released

2001-04-26 Thread Derek R. Price
There is a new interim release of CVS. It contains mostly bugfixes and a few enhancements. See the NEWS and ChangeLog files in the distribution for details. Instructions for downloading can be found at http://cvshome.org/downloads.html . So far only Linux binaries have been posted. Binary

Re: Installing cvs on Solaris 2.6

2001-04-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Srimal Gunawardena wrote: This is what I am getting; iNet:/usr/local/bincvs login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server 204.143.101.100: EOF

Re: Merging from one branch to another

2001-04-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Actually, without looking at your example, that's probably the result of a bug. CVS _does_ directly diff the three versions but it was using the wrong version ass the ancestor in addition to some toher problems for awhile. That's been fixed in the dev version, and it's about time for a new

Re: directory addition

2001-04-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Laird J. Nelson wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about reading the manual to learn what the commands and options do and just using the Usage messages to refresh your memory. Oh, come on. Normally I'm all for succinctness, but this is downright silly as an

Re: Rename atomicity

2001-04-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Paul Sander wrote: I can say from experience that assembling a sandbox from an unlocked repository is no more or less safe than any out-of-date sandbox, provided the CVS metadata are correct with respect to the contents of the working files. In either case, a "cvs update" is required (with

Re: can't login via pserver and therefore can't save ~/.cvspass file

2001-04-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Joe Kaiping wrote: Actually, I thought I would need to use both pserver and ssh. ssh for my personal CVS usage, and pserver for when CVS is executed only as a reader from within a script. (The script will be used to automatically update a web site with files contained in CVS) Can you

Re: Rename atomicity

2001-04-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Paul Sander wrote: Have you looked into the way that RCS works? It does not replace the RCS files in-place; it makes a modified copy in its lock file, and then renames the lock file on top of the original. Yeah, I knew that. Thanks. I've used this method with great success for years,

cvs.cvshome.org down temporarily

2001-04-11 Thread Derek R. Price
The main CVS repository is down while we switch the DNS records to point at its new location. It should be up again within the hour. Thanks for your patience. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CollabNet (

Re: cvs.cvshome.org down temporarily

2001-04-11 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: The main CVS repository is down while we switch the DNS records to point at its new location. It should be up again within the hour. Thanks for your patience. Okay, it's back up again. Please let me know if there are any problems. Derek -- D

Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Nathan Herring wrote: Larry writes: How is import supposed to know to do that, though? Import knows the name and branch version of the vendor branch, has a list of files to import, and has a list of files already in the repository. This is all it needs to know. Now use the following

Re: feature question

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Sasa Brcerevic wrote: Why did not 'edit -c' make it to the cvs 1.11 and yet it is on the windows version of cvs 1.10.8? Most likely you were using a patched version of 1.10.8. The answer to the more general question of why 'edit -c' isn't in cvs 1.11 has to do with the lack of some of the

Re: Permision needed with CVS

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Guillaume Cot wrote: I am using the command line client of CVS on my windows NT4.0 computer with directory. Every thing work fine if I don't have any conflict, but when I try ro update a file that is also localy modified, I systematicly have the following error : retrieving revision 1.2

Re: different access control to different users patch problem.

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
I've never used this patch before, so take the following advice with a grain of salt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1)I have down loaded the cvs1.11 in to Unix. Is this the version the patch was originally created from? If not you can expect to do a bit of porting. 3) Now we tried to apply the

Re: Problem with checkout

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Sean Preston wrote: thing is that when I checkout a tree from the cvs repository all the files permissions are read only and yet I have read/write access to the files. If I manually change the permissions then I can edit the files and commit them back. Are the files being watched (look up

Re: cvs commit error

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Saima Iqbal wrote: So I'm getting this error when I try to checkin/commit any of the files in a particular tree. Anyone have a clue what this is about? cvs [ commit aborted] could not open lock file '.../Server.java,' Permission Denied. Now, I have the right permission, I know that.

Re: Permision needed with CVS

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Guillaume Cot wrote: What version of the client and server are you using (send me the output of 'cvs version')? I can't find the error message you mention in the current source. There it is : Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10.5 (client) Copyright (c) 1989-1998 Brian Berliner,

Re: HELP! I can't access pserver

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
"Largent, Jim" wrote: I have a project on the CVS server that has been running fine. I wanted to add another separate project and added another --allow-root statement into the inetd.conf file now when I try to access the server I get: cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from

Re: HELP! I can't access pserver

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
any other thoughts? -Original Message----- From: Derek R. Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] inetd.conf into two lines? Test the command on a command line until you can get it to reply with the "bad auth" stuff when you hit return. Then copy it back into inetd.conf.

Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:19:32AM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Basically, import would have to look up the tip of the vendor branch before execution to obtain the list of files present during the last import. Not "before execution". Instead, &quo

Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Eric Siegerman wrote: Note that if all of these conditions are met except the last one, ie. the ,v file has an appropriate vendor branch, but the latest revision on that branch is marked "dead", then of course the new release tag should be added to that dead revision -- as happens now for

Re: Why the split for rcvs?

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: Note that these patches are against cvs-1.11 and I have very minimal testing on them. You'll get the best results if any _submitted_ patches are against the dev version. The less work that has to be done to get the thing properly into the tree as usably and maintainably

Re: Remainers of an old deleted user in CVS Repository ??

2001-03-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Peter Biechele wrote: We have renamed a user from say user1 to the new name user2: Now we still have edits/wazches of the old user name in some of our modules in the Repo. Is there a nice/easy/fast way to get rid of ALL remainings of this user in the CVS Repo Files su - username

Re: Risk of managing binary files with CVS

2001-03-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Ivan Saenz wrote: I've would like to know the posible risk of introducing unproperly binary files in a repository. Page through the manual for the bits on EOL substitution and keyword substitution. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org )

Re: distributed CVS repository

2001-03-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Igor Prystay wrote: Does it possible to run two separate CVS pserver on different computers with the identical CVS repository and read-write access ? Assuming you mean the repository is on a shared disk, sure, but make certain you use compatible NFS versions. This last warning is *VERY*

Re: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: Yes, maybe that would give me enough of a hint to get the gist of sanity.sh. [ . . . ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.03.21 20:47:59 add any checks for the new features. I can send you a sanity.sh diff if you want. As far as hints are concerned, the basics are pretty

Re: Import not working recursively

2001-03-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Fisher, Shane" wrote: When I follow the example from the Cederqvist manual where you create a directory tree from scratch, I find that CVS only creates the project at the topmost hierarchy. For example: CVS won't import a directory unless it contains files or needs to import a

Re: Binary file problem, large gz file (see also 23619)

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We add a gz file whose size is 28054812 with "cvs add -kb file.gz". We then delete the local file, and enter "cvs update file.gz". This produces the message "cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server", and a bad file whose size is 28048345. If we make a new gz

Re: info without working copy

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Largent, Jim writes: Is there some trick to getting information similar to cvs log without a working copy? Not that I know of. There should be an rlog command to do that, but it's never been implemented. (There used to be an rlog command that did something

Re: How to restrict specific developers to checkin files in main trunk?

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Kudiyarasan wrote: Hi , Now my position is --All developers can check in files in main trunk except few . And that few developers can only check in files in branch trunk , they are not allowed to check in files in main trunk . i.e how can I restrict main trunk but branch trunk ? .

Re: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Noel L Yap wrote: I'd also want to see documentation updates (to cvs.texinfo) before I'd check this in. It looks like cvs.texinfo is easy enough to change, but can you tell me how I can test those changes? $ cd doc $ make info You kn

Re: How to restrict ?

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
srikrishnan wrote: I would like to restrict some group of users only to access the branch and not the main trunk and vice versa. how can i achieve this. Please help me. I need it badly. I think there are some patches floating around which allow this. Try searching the mail archives and/or

Re: CVS command hangs with commit

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
David Kornmann wrote: I am experiencing some connection problem with our cvs server. Basically cvs is hanging everytime I execute and update, commit, add command. Whether I am connecting to the server with pserver of ssh does not matter, the command is always hanging. If I attempt to

Re: commit to branch

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Martin Entlicher wrote: Yes, thanks for the replies. I know, that I can do a merge on the branch with the HEAD. But I thought, that "cvs ci -r .." makes it simpler. I want to have two exactly the same revisions on the main trunk and on the branch. We have branched stable version of our

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository but not in the working directory. I want to update, in one step, only the files that I have checkout. Don't pass '-d' to update? Derek -- Derek Price CVS

Re: Another time question

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Annette Waters writes: Could you please explain how the time is used by CVS. Is it used to determine if a file has changed? Or, does it always look at the contents of the files to determine changes? CVS looks at the timestamp first; if it hasn't changed, then CVS

Re: Controlling options on cvs commands

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
irina sturm wrote: Hi everyone, A second question: is it possible to disallow use of certain options with cvs commands? I know of the possibility to impose options through .cvsrc, but what I really need is to say, for example, that "cvs admin" should never be used with option -d, or

Re: cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied Error

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Richard Otruba wrote: repository (i.e. commit, tag, etc.) gives the "can't chdir..." error specified in the subject line. The original implementer of CVS is no longer http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182 for the answer to this *VERY* frequently asked question. CVSHome.org

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository but not in the working directory. I want to update, in one step, only the files

Re: What is LOCK and how to live with it?

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Serge Smirnov wrote: -- SarcinaAnnotation.xls new revision: 1.18; previous revision: 1.17 cvs [commit aborted]: could not open lock file `/seq/software/src/Annotation/cvsroot/website/annotatorWeb/docs/,SarcinaAnnotation.xls,': File exists That lock file shouldn't be there. Search the

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
"David H. Thornley" wrote: "Derek R. Price" wrote: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository bu

Re: SSL?

2001-03-16 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek R. Price writes: Okay, that makes sense, but couldn't you achieve the same effect with a library? Where the exec would have been, the server's main function gets called and the whole process exits immediately upon return from that function? I don't think so

Re: CVS mail

2001-03-16 Thread Derek R. Price
Anita Chacko wrote: I want to send mail to cvs users only once for every fixed number of commits/updates.How can I achieve this??Can anyone suggest how I can change any scripts? Can I change anything to send a consolidated mail once an hour or so? Pls help as our users are being

Re: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: OK, the strategy I've picked is to submit three separate patches: 1. "multiple_edits" which will allow multiple edits per user per file. 2. "reservations" which will allow users to have "reserved" locks on files. 3. "multiple_edits+reservations" which will have both of the

Re: Permission Denied - Commit Email

2001-03-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Peter Disiot wrote: Hello All I'm setting up the cvs box to send notification emails to a list of people. I have set the loginfo admin file to : DEFAULT (echo ""; id; echo %{sVv}; date; cat) $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitlog And the notify admin file to: ALL mail %s -s"CVS notification" And

Re: cvs checkout problem via smbmount

2001-03-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Monika Wolff wrote: I have a problem checking out files into via smbmount mounted directories, always getting the message: cvs checkout: in directory hausing: cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open

Re: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.03.15 08:44:37 Are these patched backwards/forwards compatible? i.e. what happens when the client and server are out of synch on any of these patches? ME = multiple_edits, R = reservations, MER = multiple_edits+reservations, ! = not present

Re: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: Oh, yes, that's right, if either the client or the server doesn't support "-c", the operation won't go through. IIRC, "cvs editors" will work regardless of who supports multiple edits since the client will first check to see if the server supports the feature. In the

Re: querying non-rtags?

2001-03-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexander Kamilewicz wrote: 2. After the code freeze and before the build (which is me doing cvs rtag and then updating our test box with said tag), the "gatekeeper" will look at all "tags" and decide what "features" and/or "fixes" will go into the build. 3. I'll do the build via a

Re: Unusual error message

2001-03-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Trent Eggleston wrote: Now, whenever anyone trys to commit any file, error messages are printed for each and every one of the aforementioned files: cvs update: move away Makefile; it is in the way cvs update: move away . I cannot determine what this message means. However, the

Re: add directory heirarchy

2001-03-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Robert Davies wrote: bout to put a project into a cvs repository. The project is a visual programming tool that has multiple toolboxes. When a new toolbox is created, a heirarchy of directory/files is created. When the project is in cvs, when I create a new toolbox is it possible to add the

Re: Branching

2001-03-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Praveen Sinha wrote: Is it possible to give access permission(Read/Write) to a group of individuals working on a branch taken from main trunk.So that the persons working on main trunk and branch to avoid modifying the files accidently.One person from both the team can be granted

Re: patch to gssapi server authentication to accept any server

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
Assar Westerlund wrote: [... Kerberos explanations ...] I hope this makes it clearer. Yeah, it does. I want to get Kerberos set up here so I can do some testing before I check things in, but it should go in. It'll probably be a few weeks since I'm going to be on vacation next week. A few

Re: CVS novice question

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a question for all CVS gurus. We have a soft. dev. project with development on Window as well as Solaris. I need to create a diff file which i can use to "patch" it on Solaris. I have added new files to project (on windows NT). These

Re: CVS novice question

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: The work around, if you're not daring enough to grab a dev version of Oh, and if you are daring enough to install the dev version, it has to be installed on the server end for the fix to work. Maybe on the server client end, but I think this one was s

Re: CVS administrative files

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
irina sturm wrote: - What should I do with the CVSROOT/* files? As people may need to create their own aliases, or whatever other modifications to do on them, I decide to leave them on free access to everybody. I don't know what the impact of

Re: CVS administrative files

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: irina sturm wrote: - What should I do with the CVSROOT/* files? As people may need to create their own aliases, or whatever other modifications to do on them, I decide to leave them on free access to

Re: loginfo file

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there a way to represent a path in the loginfo file with spaces characters, something like: "^users/my home" Not currently, no. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue (

Re: Standalone CVS pserver

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
John Scott - Outlook wrote: I had talked to somebody a while back (can't remember their name now) who was looking at makeing a patch to cvs to allow you to specify the port number on the command line. Something like setting CVSROOT env var to :pserver:user@host(port):/path_to_cvs_repos The

Re: pserver - getting down

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Kudiyarasan writes: 2. When I use cvs log or cvs diff for a module having nearly 1000 files , pserver is getting down . Message is shown like the following at the middle cvs [log aborted]: connect to nms-build:2401 failed: Connection refused

Re: Checking out files in the repository itself( how to better prevent )

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: The current implementation prevents via the safe_location() function ( in checkout.c ). safe_location() follows symlinks back to find the actual location. The problem that I am having is that repositories are not where they say they are due to mount issues. For

Re: Maxium command line args?

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Forrest Aldrich wrote: we use CVS to maintain our DNS data. We also use a DNS regression suite (see http://www.quick.com.au/help/dns.html) to do pre-commit checks - very handy. The above toolset includes facilities for generating PTR records. If/when we re-configure said tool, it can

Re: CVS Projects

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Brian Sequeira wrote: Hello,I am a newbie on this list and also with CVS and GNU Makefiles. I have a few questions and any help would be greatly appreciated:We have no CM tool in place for anything besides code(CVS and GNU Makefiles) . What do we use for Non-CI's like documenting bug fixes,

Re: pserver question

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Peter Ajamian wrote: The passwords are not stored plain text in the passwd file, they have to be encrypted with the crypt() function. There's a utility available that I just finished work on this past week which will maintain the passwd and readers files for you automatically (it works

Re: Almost connected, but not quite.

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
"David A. Cobb" wrote: Second try I let CVS start SSH, as it should do. The /attached/ session log shows that it went fine until the SSH passed the "cvs server" command up to its counterpart. Then nothing! Try executing various commands, leading up to cvs commands in an ssh shell.

Re: Problem merging a branch

2001-02-28 Thread Derek R. Price
m the only one using this branch (it's just a temporary development branch), so I don't have to worry about affecting anyone else. - Dennis - Original Message ----- From: "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Dennis Jones" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "CVS Mailing List&q

Updating the default cvsignore list

2001-02-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry and I started discussing adding some file names to CVS's default ignore list due to a recent patch from Assar Westerluund and, I guess, an earlier one from Pavel Roskin. I don't expect that an extremely long discussion is either needed or desired, but does anyone have any comments about

Re: Maxium command line args?

2001-02-27 Thread Derek R. Price
Forrest Aldrich wrote: We have a series of scripts from quick.com.au that will assist us in managing our DNS pools. The author mentions that a patch may be required in order to avoid command line argument limitations, especially in the case of 500 zones (which we have). I'm no

Re: makeinfo msg when make-install

2001-02-27 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Tracy Brown writes: I've never gotten this message before during the make install: if [ ! -f ./CVSvn.texi ]; then ln -s ./CVSvn.texi . || ln ./CVSvn.texi . || cp ./CVSvn.texi . ; else true; fi makeinfo ./cvs.texinfo -o cvs.info makeinfo: not found

Re: Setting UP CVS

2001-02-24 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Well, they only need write permissions to directories they need write access to if you enable a LockDir directory they have write access to. And if the CVSROOT/history file exists I think they need write access to that too, but not to the CVSROOT direct

Re: Setting UP CVS

2001-02-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Matt Smith wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 1. cvsadminas a user or group? There is no 'cvsadmin' account. However, you should set up a cvs group, and add all the accounts that will use cvs to this group. Actually, CVS does

Re: Help cant recover old files

2001-02-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Chris Shepherd wrote: I have been working on online housing for the campus I work at. I just incorporated php sessions. I have a couple of directories one of which is an administrative directory for all web admin interfaces. Anyways after I made all of my changes I updated. Everything went

Re: Empty Directories and Tags

2001-02-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Rasku wrote: Peter McKenzie wrote: Hi, It seems that empty directories are not checked out when you checkout using the -r option to specify a tag. Is this a known bug or feature? Any workaround available? It's a feature. CVS assumes that the directory is empty because that

Re: [francis.irving@creaturelabs.com: Re: Removing directories...]

2001-02-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Rob Helmer wrote: Cool. Thanks again. Random question : is there an easy way to make these the defaults for all users of a given system? i.e., can I point an environment variable to it and have the client pick that up as the path to the /etc/cvsrc ? No, but you could link each user's

Re: send help

2001-02-21 Thread Derek R. Price
"HSNS (P) LTD., India" wrote: hai, I'm having Windows based CVS. CVS 1.10.5 (client). Also I've implemented windows workgroup in LAN with 20 systems. Can I implement client/server based CVS in this workgroup? Should I get any new version of this CVS software to make this arrangement? Also

Re: patch to gssapi server authentication to accept any server

2001-02-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Assar Westerlund wrote: "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does this affect installation and configuration by the end user? Not at all. Before, you had to have a key for cvs@gethostname(), but now any key stored in /etc/krb5.keytab can be used for authentication. W

Re: GSSAPI authentication

2001-02-20 Thread Derek R. Price
"de Jong, Mark" wrote: Derek, I am running K5 release 1.1 from MIT. I found gssapi.h and have tried to compile using your current version of CVS (1.11). I want to get this to work before moving on to your new release. :) I get a series of errors while compiling: Undefined symbol

Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update()

2001-02-16 Thread Derek R. Price
Brad Chisholm wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:58:46PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Well, it didn't seem very hard to do, so I had configure search for nanosleep, usleep, and select in that order, then use them in the same order of preference, falling back on sleep as a last resort

Re: Lock files preventing tagging ?

2001-02-16 Thread Derek R. Price
Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: Does CVS not operate on the ,v files directly. Or does it create RCS files and then renames them to the corresponding ,v files. It creates lock files which are really temporary RCS files then moves those over the original file when done. Derek -- Derek Price

Re: Strange symptom with cvs status when merge between branches

2001-02-16 Thread Derek R. Price
Matthew Berney wrote: The exact cvs commands in use are: cvs up -r IP3 (update to the target branch) cvs up -j Last_Merge_IP2 -j IP2 file (merge changes since last merge) As you can see, the R2_0 branch is not even included here. And yes, we are sure that the "Last_Merge_IP2" is on

[Fwd: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update()]

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
For posterity. -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- "If I was modest, I'd be perfect." -Ted Turner Laine Stump wrote: I just patched the WinNT files to use a "kind

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