[Xastir] [ctsai at users.sf.net: [forge:site-support] #1887 Anonymous CVS behavior has changed since the service was re-established]

[Tom Russo]

SF has replied to the bug report regarding anon CVS.

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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:05:18 +0000
From: Chris Tsai <ctsai at users.sf.net>
To: "[forge:site-support] " <1887 at site-support.forge.p.re.sf.net>
Subject: [forge:site-support] #1887 Anonymous CVS behavior has changed since
	the service was re-established

   Greetings,

   I've confirmed this issue and I'm escalating this to our operations team
   to investigate further.

   Regards,
   Chris Tsai, SourceForge.net Support

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   [1][site-support:#1887] Anonymous CVS behavior has changed since the
   service was re-established

   Status: assigned
   Labels: siteops p3
   Created: Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:54 PM UTC by Tom Russo
   Last Updated: Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:54 PM UTC
   Owner: Chris Tsai

   The anonymous cvs service behavior after it has been restored has changed
   in a manner that has caused users of the Xastir project to be unable to
   issue "cvs update" on existing checkouts.

   The long-standing instructions from project developers to anon CVS users
   has been that they should do their initial checkouts with:

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

   Users who have done so have begun to report that "cvs update" is spewing
   errors now. An example (heavily trimmed) from a user report follows:

     cvs update
     cvs update: Updating .
     cvs update: .cvsignore is no longer in the repository
     cvs update: ABOUT-NLS is no longer in the repository
     cvs update: AUTHORS is no longer in the repository
     cvs update: CC_OpenStreetMap_logo.png is no longer in the repository
     cvs update: CC_OpenStreetMap_txt.png is no longer in the repository
     cvs update: COPYING is no longer in the repository
     [2][... one such message for every single file normally present in the
     top level...]
     cvs update: Updating CVSROOT
     U CVSROOT/checkoutlist
     U CVSROOT/commitinfo
     U CVSROOT/config
     U CVSROOT/cvswrappers
     U CVSROOT/editinfo
     U CVSROOT/loginfo
     U CVSROOT/modules
     U CVSROOT/notify
     U CVSROOT/rcsinfo
     U CVSROOT/taginfo
     U CVSROOT/verifymsg
     [3][This is new --- no normal checkout should have included CVSROOT]
     cvs update: Updating CVSROOT/Emptydir
     cvs update: Updating Davis
     cvs update: cannot open directory /cvsroot/xastir/xastir/Davis: No such
     file or directory
     [4][one such error message for every subdirectory in the project]

   When I checked into this, I discovered that a fresh checkout using our
   standard instructions now gets not only the normal files in the project,
   but the CVSROOT directory, too. Also, all files are an additional level
   down in path name.

   I found that issuing a modified cvs checkout:

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

   produced a checkout that matched prior behavior.

   It appears that an extra level of "xastir" has been added to the
   repository path somehow, and this has broken the ability to update
   existing checkouts.

   Could you please look into this and let us know if anonymous CVS can be
   returned to its old behavior? We have given our users the workaround (to
   blow away their existing checkouts and use the modified repository to get
   a new one), but that will, of course, break their checkouts again if the
   service is returned to old behavior.

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