[Xastir-dev] CVS broken big-time

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

While we're on the topic of 'forges' Unidata, with whom I do a lot of 
work now in the weather world has set up their own GForge site (or 
claimed they were going to and are now doing something gforge-ish). 
They had a whole slew of reasons, including SF's problems last year and 
some apparent restrictions and requirements coming down the pike (plus, 
atmos guys are just antisocial sometimes :-D that sent them this way. 
Do we want to consider such a thing?

gerry

tbaggett at jump.net wrote:
> Hi Curt, et-al,
> 
> Speaking based on my experience supporting and administrating CVS in our company:
> 
> 
>>Did the DNS problem affect anonymous CVS access as well?
> 
> 
> 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)
> 
> 
> 
>>What should we do to fix this for all the CVS users, if necessary?
> 
> 
> Yes, otherwise the next time they attempt a cvs update, they will encounter the same problem.
> 
> 
>>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. I don't like the idea of editing your /etc/hosts file as it surely is only delaying problems that will arise later while we are no longer thinking about this.
> 
> find -name Root -path \*CVS\* -exec sed -e s/cvs.projectname.sf.net/cvs.sf.net/ {} \; -print
> 
> (I hope I got the escaping correct)
> 
> Basically, yeah, this sucks. It's a royal pain in the rear just getting 20 engineers to run a script like this. They tend to blow it off until they can't commit something
> 
> 
> While I've got the floor, I want to throw a plug out there for Subversion (SVN). It's very similar to CVS, but fixes a lot of the problems inherent of CVS such as providing version control on directories, and being able to rename/copy files. It is awesome. Like a breath of fresh air or being released from a jail you didn't know you were held captive in ;-)
> 
> 
> Anyway, that's my analysis on the CVS situation. Remember, you paid nothing for it, hihi!
> 
> 
> 73,
> Tim
> AA5DF
> 
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