[Xastir] CVS back online

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:30:33PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:10:57PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kd5mkv at hotmail.com> flavor, containing:
> >    cvs update: CC_OpenStreetMap_logo.png is no longer in the repository
> 
> >    cvs update: Updating CVSROOT
> 
> [etc.]
> >    cvs update: cannot open directory /cvsroot/xastir/xastir/src: No such file
> >    or directory
> >    cvs update: skipping directory src
> >    cvs update: Updating symbols
> >    cvs update: cannot open directory /cvsroot/xastir/xastir/symbols: No such
> >    file or directory
> >    cvs update: skipping directory symbols
> >    cvs update: Updating xastir
> 
> [etc., etc.]
> 
> Clearly, anonymous CVS is still broken.  The errors you're getting are on
> the sourceforge side, and are not problems with "./configure" or "bootstrap.sh"
> --- unless you count the fact that CVS is so confused that it's REMOVED
> pretty much all the files that it thinks it can't find in the repository.
> 
> This problem has to be fixed by sourceforge.  Your best bet is to submit
> a support request to SF directly.  They seem to think that anonymous CVS is 
> back on line, as they've announced it on their news page, but your output
> clearly shows that there's something wrong on their end.

Just did a fresh anonymous CVS checkout and it worked, but in a bizarre
way.  It checked out not only Xastir, but the CVSROOT directory associated
with the project.  This is not the right behavior, but it does mean there's a 
path forward in the short term:  blow away your CVS checkout, and use this
command to check out a new one:

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir/xastir co xastir

The difference here is the repository path, "/cvsroot/xastir/xastir" instead
of "/cvsroot/xastir" --- the latter will create xastir/CVSROOT and 
xastir/xastir, the former will get you just xastir.

This is only a workaround for a broken set-up at SourceForge.  If they FIX the
issue, you'll have to blow away your checkout and check it out again using
the old instructions.

This should still be reported to sourceforge as a problem.

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