On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:29, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>>     on Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:57:12 -0500 writes:
> 
>     Marc> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 12:38, Douglas Bates wrote:
>     >> Marc Schwartz wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> > I am not able to access cvs via rsync today. Is the service down?
>     >> 
>     >> Yes.  We should have sent email about it to r-devel but it has been a 
>     >> hectic several days.
>     >> 
>     >> The bad news is that the newly installed cvs.r-project.org machine, 
>     >> which is also rsync.r-project.org, was compromised and we had to take it 
>     >> off the net.
>     >> 
>     >> The good news is that, thanks to heroic efforts by Martin Maechler and 
>     >> Deepayan Sarkar, the CVS repository has been transformed to Subversion 
>     >> and is available at http://svn.r-project.org/R/ (and at 
>     >> https://svn.r-project.org/R/ but SSL is probably only needed by those 
>     >> doing commits).  If you have a Subversion client (see 
>     >> http://subversion.tigris.org - those using Windows may also want to look 
>     >> at http://tortoiseSVN.tigris.org/) you can check out and update the 
>     >> current r-devel from http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ and the current 
>     >> R-patched from http://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-1-9-patches/
>     >> 
> 
>     Marc> Doug,
> 
>     Marc> Thanks and thanks to Martin and Deepayan!
> 
>     Marc> subversion is part of FC2 as is the svn client.
> 
> Thanks, good to know.  It's also part of Debian "testing" and
> newer;  it's *not* part of RH Enterprise though.

subversion 1.0.2 ships with FC2 and subversion 1.0.4 is available via
yum/up2date repository updates. 1.0.5 appears to not have made it to the
FC update sites yet.

There is a security advisory for versions <= 1.0.4 at:

http://subversion.tigris.org/security/CAN-2004-0413-advisory.txt


> Installing it from source, http://subversion.tigris.org/
> is not hard.  The important thing for the R-project though is to
> use  "configure --with-ssl ...."
> because only then you get SSL support, i.e. only then you can use https://...
> which is (currently) absolutely required as I just said in
> another message on this thread.
> 
> 
>     Marc> Presuming that I am using the proper command:
> 
>     Marc> svn co http://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-1-9-patches
> 
>     Marc> Is the svn server down or is the command incorrect?
> 
> Use 'https' instead of 'http'.
> This is a requirement for svn.r-project.org/    (on purpose).


Good idea.

Thanks Martin!

Regards,

Marc

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