[Xastir-dev] CVS broken big-time

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

>
> SourceForge says this now:
>
> (  2004-04-29 14:11:35 - Project CVS Service )   As of 2004-04-28
> the CVS services will no longer function with the hostname of
> cvs.PROJECTNAME.sourceforge.net. You should change your CVS commands
> to use the host cvs.sourceforge.net and that should resolve any
> outstanding issues that you may have.  This issue came about as a
> result of upgrading from BIND 8 to BIND 9 which doesn't allow for a
> wildcard in the middle of a hostname.
>
> In one of the bug reports, a user suggested these fixes:
>
>
>   Date: 2004-04-29 11:05
>   Sender: rurban
>   Logged In: YES
>   user_id=13755
>
>   this is a temp. workaround, but should work as long as they
>   don't install a second cvs server.
>
>   go to your project root dir:
>
>   find -name Root -path \*CVS\* -exec perl -pi.bak -e's/cvs.projectname.sf.net/cvs.sf.net/' \{\} \;
>
>   or simply add the cvs.sf.net IP to your /etc/hosts file as
>   your cvs.<projectname>.sf.net entry.
>   The first workaround prevents from further ns problems, the
>   second will fail, when they move servers around.
>
>
> Did the DNS problem affect anonymous CVS access as well?  I know
> that my developer's CVS is broken.
>
> What should we do to fix this for all the CVS users, if necessary?
> Ask them to blow away their Xastir source directories and start
> over?

It looks like we suggest this in all cases for regular users:

 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net

So there doesn't appear to be a problem there.  Developers will have
to change from cvs.xastir.sourceforge.net to cvs.sourceforge.net
throughout their source directories.

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