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and subject line rotation script is gone
has caused the Debian Bug report #63119,
regarding cvs rotation scripts break on some repository names
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Package: cvs
Version: 1.10.7-7
The problem stems from the shell code used to store individual rotation
times, and the fact that shell variables can't have characters like
hyphens in them. Thus if one creates a repository like /var/cvs/foo-bar
and requests an 8 day rotation period you'll end up with a
/etc/cvs-cron.conf that looks like:
ROT_HIST="yes"
REPOS="/var/cvs/foo-bar"
ROTKEEP="individual"
ROTKEEP__var_cvs_foo-bar="8"
/etc/cron.weekly/cvs will try to source that file and it will puke
as "ROTKEEP__var_cvs_foo-bar" is not a valid shell variable name.
I don't have time to write up a fix to all this but one possible avenue of
recourse is to use positional ROTKEEP_* instances rather than named coded
ones. eg, given REPOS="/var/cvs/foo:/var/cvs/bar:/var/cvs/baz-quux" and
ROTKEEP="individual" you'd have ROTKEEP_1 through ROTKEEP_3, where _1 maps
to foo, _2 to bar, and _3 to baz-quux. I know this isn't as human
readable but to combat that when you generate the file why not include
some comments:
ROT_HIST="yes"
REPOS="/var/cvs/foo:/var/cvs/bar:/var/cvs/baz-quux"
ROTKEEP="individual"
ROTKEEP_1="4" # /var/cvs/foo
ROTKEEP_2="4" # /var/cvs/bar
ROTKEEP_3="12" # /var/cvs/baz-quux
Add a counter to the for loops in cron.weekly/cvs and pass this numeric
suffix into the rotate function along with the repository name, and you
should have a working replacement for the current method. I imagine some
hacking to the debconf scripts would be in order as well, but I haven't
looked into it to seriously.
I am using Debian Linux 2.2 on an Alpha, not that it has any bearing on
this whatsoever.
-jamie
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Hi,
the cvs package does not maintain any local repositories any more,
so your problem should be gone now.
bye,
//mirabilos
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