[Xastir-dev] CVS broken big-time

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 tbaggett at jump.net wrote:

> Yes. When you check out a project from a CVS repository, the
> repository location is stored in a 'CVS' directory in each dir of
> your working sources. Since the hostname of the CVS server has now
> essentially changes from cvs.xastir.sourceforge.org to
> cvs.sourceforge.net (aka, cvs.sf.net)


> > Ask them to blow away their Xastir source directories and start
> > over?
>
> Either that, or ask them to run the script below. The script will
> fix their local working copy. I've had to have folks at our
> company do this a few times with the exact same script - except I
> used sed instead of the Write-Only PERL language ;-)


> Note, that changing the setting of your CVSROOT environment
> variable (if set) will *not* affect any working copies you
> currently ahve checked out. They will emain checked out from the
> old domain name.

What are the error messages you get with anon CVS when you
experience the problem?  I can add an FAQ entry once I have that.

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