RE: Import revision number question

2000-02-27 Thread Chris Cameron
1.2. Normally in CVS you can ignore the internal revision numbers. *********** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 49

RE: Enhancement suggestion

2000-02-15 Thread Chris Cameron
d not re-expand -kb will work as -ko and prevent line feed conversion. *********** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64

RE: symbolic links in repository?

2000-02-15 Thread Chris Cameron
_corecom Now checking out Nice Servelet will give you: NiceServelet/ NiceServelet/core/com This may not be quite what you want, but you should get the idea from this. *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd So

RE: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-16 Thread Chris Cameron
> What types of things in batch mode? > Can anyone think of a reason why CVS behaves this way and if others think this > actually a bug? > AFAIK that is the way it is designed to work. I haven't seen any other complaints. It is quite logical to me! > At the very least there

RE: CVS File Locking

2000-02-15 Thread Chris Cameron
ew files for which a merging algorithm cannot be developed "cvs edit" and friends are far *MORE* than sufficient for *ALL* purposes CVS should ever be put to use for"). Aren't you in VIOLENT agreement here? It may not be possible, but can people climb down from their lofty

RE: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-16 Thread Chris Cameron
n with CVS's functionality (and give you a better process, e.g. how do you know what version was the LAST stable version?) ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL

RE: Configuring WinCVS

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Cameron
one server? You obviously aren't familiar with Unix/Linux. Project A and Project B settings must be on the same line in inetd.conf. You need to specify multiple --allow-root settings in the entry, as described in Cederqvist. ***********

RE: cvsignore problem

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Cameron
be added to the Faq-o-matic and/or manuals? ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI) The Terrace fax: +64 4 495 8419

RE: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-20 Thread Chris Cameron
e file was labelled as dead, in order to allow the recreation of a previous tag of the directory. Any tags you place in the main directory and manually on a dead revision will cause the files in the main directory AND the Attic to be delivered to you when you do a 'cvs co -r live'. Is this

RE: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-21 Thread Chris Cameron
On Saturday, February 19, 2000 5:41 AM, Greg A. Woods [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > [ On Friday, February 18, 2000 at 17:58:35 (+1300), Chris Cameron wrote: ] > > Is this a bug? A tag -F will move an existing tag, maybe it should check > > in the Attic and remove the tag

RE: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Cameron
#x27;t move the tag on the dead files. Is this a bug? A tag -F will move an existing tag, maybe it should check in the Attic and remove the tag from any files which contain the tag? With this functionality, I believe your problem would be solved. I may look at this next week, if I

RE: newbie question: help someone!

2000-02-28 Thread Chris Cameron
info or CVSROOT/commitinfo for some scripts to do some tricky things. ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388

RE: Using CVS for a website

2000-02-28 Thread Chris Cameron
the checkout. Be sure to do the checkout in the background so the script > > doesn't deadlock. > > The one that comes with CVS! It is in the documentation directory as either postscript or texinfo. ******* Chris Cameron

RE: running CVS as root or not?

2000-02-29 Thread Chris Cameron
e running as cvsowner, any loginfo, commitinfo or taginfo scripts may need to be modified to take the $USER cvs variable as the 'id' and 'whoami' commands will return cvsowner. Those are the only issues I am aware of. We also set the repository permissions to 2755. *

RE: How do I do "cvs rtag" for an ampersand module?

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Cameron
er: cannot chdir to bar: No such file or directory > > What am I doing wrong, or what information do I need to track this down? > In my experience you can't use rtag with ampersand modules as rtag 'acts directly on the repository' and there is no direct mapping that rtag ca

RE: Modules Question

2000-03-08 Thread Chris Cameron
src project/inc project/pages project/inc/pages BUT you must check out the project_pages AFTER you have checked out something into inc, otherwise CVS will record a Repository of Emptydir for inc and you will then not be able to check out files to inc! ***

RE: new guy - hopefully easy questions

2000-03-05 Thread Chris Cameron
m you are trying to solve? It seems that you have decided 'how to skin the cat' and now want some assistance. If you describe the problem you have, people may be able to offer alternative means of 'skinning the cat' which fit in with the way CVS works. As other people have

RE: Unix to Dos filtering

2000-03-09 Thread Chris Cameron
? I think the historical consensus for this scenario is to use CVS in a client/server mode and let the client sort out line terminations. We use WinCVS as a Windows/NT front end and CVS in pserver mode on our Unix server. *

RE: Writing shell scripts that use CVS / Automatic checkout

2000-03-14 Thread Chris Cameron
update -d ;echo - ; /usr/local/bin/cvs -q update -d ;echo =====)>>$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/LOGS/WWW_update.log 2>&1 &) *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CVS server access over the Internet

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Cameron
ather than internet. I'd suggest that it is your network that needs to be tidied up. I don't know what access mechanism you are using, but whatever it is, you need to make sure that it is open at your fire walls. ***

RE: CVS Question

2000-03-21 Thread Chris Cameron
done ;) > This is described by cederqvist in the loginfo section. I posted the excerpt from our loginfo file that does this job last week (from memory). *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Developme

RE: Trouble making a connection to a CVS server

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Cameron
ning as another user, it cannot read the shadow file and therefore cannot authenticate the password. In this case, you have to create a password file in CVSROOT. *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Deve

RE: Access to CVSROOT/passwd mapped username

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Cameron
is documented in Cederqvist, but I can't remember where. This caught me for a while as well (I went as far as creating a patch to fix this behaviour)! *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O

RE: Trouble making a connection to a CVS server

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Cameron
What is the line in your inetd.conf? > -----Original Message- > From: Chris Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 1:33 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Trouble making a connection to

RE: multiple repositories.

2000-04-12 Thread Chris Cameron
But this does not work... So I'm guessing that I'm supposed to > > > have some other command > > > > Your problem is simply that inetd doesn't like commands longer than 30 > > characters. All you need to do is put your '/bin/cvs cvs > >

RE: Linking CVS repositories to other CVS repositories

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Cameron
amp;_moduleC &_moduleA Any other order and the moduleA repository will be set as 'Emptydir' and it won't work correctly. *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMA

RE: pserver & solaris hanging problem

2000-05-01 Thread Chris Cameron
--allow-root option in pserver mode! We are running pserver on Solaris (2.6/5.6) and have been for the last couple of years! *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Lead

RE: Selection of branches for commit

2000-05-08 Thread Chris Cameron
umber. This may solve your problem and may be something for a future version of CVS. *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388

RE: Displaying the tagged versions

2000-05-08 Thread Chris Cameron
e revisions of the files that it is tagging, and > that information could be easily displayed if an option was specified. > This information is available to the taginfo scripts. We log all tagging to a log file that can be reviewed later. *

RE: Emptydir

2000-05-11 Thread Chris Cameron
that this patch has since been incorporated into the latest CVS build. ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +

RE: Keyword substitution of tags?

2000-05-22 Thread Chris Cameron
ands to the tag, WHEN the tag is checked out. ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Software Development Team Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI)

RE: CVSROOT/passwd enhancements

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Cameron
ystemAuth=no. This > has the added advantage of keeping all the password-related stuff in one > place. > We went to the password file because cvs running as any user except root couldn't read the shadow file to verify passwords. This would not change the logic of your changes, but it

RE: cvswrappers

2000-05-28 Thread Chris Cameron
do this, you could use the commitinfo file to trigger a script or program to do this. The *info files work fine in c/s mode, except for the absence of user interaction. *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications N

RE: CVS access using SSH

2000-06-07 Thread Chris Cameron
; RSA authentication accepted by server. > Requesting shell. > Entering interactive session. > -bash: Root: command not found > -bash: Valid-responses: command not found > -bash: valid-requests: command not found > This may be too late and you may have solved the pro

RE: loginfo question

2000-06-08 Thread Chris Cameron
o control who gets e-mails (you can add on extra parameters to be passed to your script). *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Senior Solution Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI)

RE: Checking branch for commit

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Cameron
find or remember the patch :(! ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Senior Solution Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI) The Te

RE: CVS pids and the pids of its kids

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Cameron
ing used as a multi user system and is lightly loaded, you would probably see this behaviour. On a heavily loaded system, anything is possible! Then again, if this is Linux, I don't know how similar to the commercial flavours of Unix it is in this regard. *

RE: cvs-nserver and latest CVS advisory (Was: patch to make CVS chroot)

2000-08-08 Thread Chris Cameron
ository. Our pserver runs as a special user (under inetd) with virtually no permissions except the ability to run cvs. *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Senior Solution Architect [EMAIL

Removal of tagged files

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Cameron
ter all it is a special kind of file modification!). ******* Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-

RE: Removal of tagged files

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Cameron
It is scenario 1 and we're on 1.10.7. I'll look at getting appropriate updates. Thanks for the info. ******* Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product

RE: BRANCH LABEL FOR DIRECTORIES

2001-06-18 Thread Chris Cameron
seem to be trying to have your cake and eat it! ******* Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388

RE: How to avoid conflicts avalanche

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Cameron
there are a lot of merges and conflicts, it suggests to me that the different country releases aren't really 'standard' software. ******* Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager

RE: Strange dir behavior and Emptydir

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Cameron
ore it got too serious! ******* Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495

RE: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread Chris Cameron
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RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Chris Cameron
our source code? ******* Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI)

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-12 Thread Chris Cameron
ative, but on occasions you seem to be opposed to what everyone else on the list wants and your opinion is inviolate. ******* Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-12 Thread Chris Cameron
hread seems to have drifted alot and people are now being criticised for offering solutions to the original problem as if they are the ones who asked the problem! *** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-12 Thread Chris Cameron
re, it will be a beautiful day on Friday (well it was here):)! *********** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.

RE: cvs and gnats link?

2001-09-17 Thread Chris Cameron
message is automatically added to the top of the fix: field in the gnats PR That is all we have. *** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL

RE: Visually Viewing Branches and Tags

2000-10-24 Thread Chris Cameron
e structure of CVS branches and tags. > Thanks. > WinCVS and tkCVS both give this functionality on a per file basis, but only for checked out files. I'm not sure about jCVS as its a while since I looked at it. *********** Chris Ca

RE: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Cameron
patch will require changes to all your commitinfo scripts. ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Senior Solution Architect IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: "No space left on device" error during cvs status/update

2000-11-01 Thread Chris Cameron
e as more swap space is used, less space is available for /tmp AND this can change dynamically as the system is running! *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Senior Solution Architect

RE: merge/diff GUI tool

2000-11-28 Thread Chris Cameron
From memory it came with tkcvs. ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388

RE: Ampersand module question

2000-11-28 Thread Chris Cameron
location, so can't be updated. I guess the short answer is not to delete caturgiator once you've checked it out. It seems to me that the intention of the modules file was to allow you to perform several checkouts at one time, using an 'alias' instead of having to remember all the repository locations. ***

Import and commit

2001-01-18 Thread Chris Cameron
Does anyone know of any patches which may be available to force an import to do the precommit checks as specified in commitinfo? *** Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Product Manager

Commitinfo behaviour

2001-01-25 Thread Chris Cameron
in aaa/ddd/bbb! ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI)

RE: problem with "co -d xx -n" : bug or feature?

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Cameron
There used to be a patch available at cvshome to fix a similar problem in the modules file. I cannot remember the exact details, but we installed the patch. AFAIK it has not been incorporated into the main CVS tree. Sorry I can't give you any more details, but I'm out of the office, visiting sa

RE: problem with "co -d xx -n" : bug or feature?

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Cameron
ur repository when I get home. Otherwise, someone else may be able to help. As I said previously, there is (was?) a patch at one time to fix a bug similar to this. ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ

RE: problem with "co -d xx -n" : bug or feature?

2001-02-25 Thread Chris Cameron
ruary 03, 2001 12:39 AM, Chris Cameron [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > There used to be a patch available at cvshome to fix a similar problem in > the modules file. I cannot remember the exact details, but we installed the > patch. AFAIK it has not been incorporated into the main CVS tree

Recursive update

2001-03-06 Thread Chris Cameron
commit takes a looong time! ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI) Th

RE: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-21 Thread Chris Cameron
n't choke on the new behaviour. I didn't add any checks for the new features. I can send you a sanity.sh diff if you want. ******* Chris CameronOpen Telecommunications NZ Ltd Product Manager

FW: CVS problem

2001-05-08 Thread Chris Cameron
ssued the update command. The second update give bar.cc the timestamp of the original checkin time of bar.cc *** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Manag

RE: CVS problem

2001-05-09 Thread Chris Cameron
. *** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI) The Terrace fax: +64 4 495

RE: "Triggers" & links to defect tracking systems

2001-05-10 Thread Chris Cameron
. *** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 10-388 +64 4 495 8403 (DDI

RE: Crazy idea - replace RCS backend with ClearCase...!!!

2001-05-22 Thread Chris Cameron
Sorry to throw a spanner in the works, but from 1.10, CVS incorporates RCS as a set of libraries and doesn't call the external rcs commands. *** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Ma

RE: File permissions [make that directory permissions!]

2001-05-22 Thread Chris Cameron
otect against? Malicious users or uses who may do potentially damaging operations without being aware of it? *** Chris Cameron Open Telecommunications Ltd Product Manager IN Product Manag

RE: A way to see who has checked out a module?

2004-01-13 Thread Chris Cameron
Am I correct in assuming that you are looking for a web based equivilent to the 'cvs editors' command? I don't know if there is such a tool, but I'm sure someone will be able to tell you if we can agree on the 'command line' option you originally referred to. Chris > -Original Message- >