how to connect to a repository?

2001-02-15 Thread vidhya d
hello ,  i am facing a problem in cvs.  it is that i need to connect to windows 95 from solaris to access a repository there .how to connect to windows 95 /access the repository there  from solaris? please give me the solution ,if anyone knows.   thanks in advance for ur help,  vidya.   

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2001-02-15 Thread Andy Baker (Studio Plaza)
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[Fwd: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update()]

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
For posterity. -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- "If I was modest, I'd be perfect." -Ted Turner Laine Stump wrote: > I just patched the WinNT files to use a "kind o

Re: Issues with raising the 'floor' in CVS

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Teala Spitzbarth wrote: > cvs commit: in directory 3rdparty/apache/etc/rc.d/init.d: > cvs [commit aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first This means that the data wasn't checked out of CVS in the first place. Import&checkout or add the files before attempting

Re: import over existing module

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Mary Hill wrote: > We had a module in our repository xxx. > > We had a developer who clicked on import (using wincvs) when they meant > to do a checkout. > > The import overwrote the module in the repository. > > Is there some configuration setting we should have set to prevent this > kind of err

Re: CVS "Help me please" Question

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Laura Gordon wrote: > Hello ! > > Thank you ! I am using CVS as a storage/diff tool rather than a development > tool at the direction of my customer. I perform CM on a 2 million lines of > code project which is maintained by a separate company. The entire project > falls under one directory, I wi

Re: command not found

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
keerthi wrote: >ALL mail %s -s "CVS notification" > in the notify file of the administrative files. when another user try to > edit the file by giving cvs edit. it is giving the message > >sh: -s: command not found I don't suppose the mail command is a script on your system and is attemp

2 "how to <> in CVS" questions

2001-02-15 Thread Mark O'Brien
Hello all. I am trying to figure out how to implement an automated process in which, just prior to checkin approval, the branch is verified. Then after checkin, the bug number is attached to that new file version. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated. 1. Given a bug number on check

Problem with Setting up and logging into CVS

2001-02-15 Thread Shan Sivakolundhu
Hi,   I have a Sun Solaris box and I have CVS installed on it. I also have a Windows 2000 Professional laptop and I am running WinCVS ver 1.1b13 on it (I have been able to use this client on a previous project without incident)   I am trying to bring a current project under CVS.   I did the f

Vendor Tags etc.

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Longworth
Hi All, I've read in the CVS documentation about how to merge changes to source code from the vendor with changes made locally, ie; Program v1.0 is released, tweaked by ourselves, then Program v1.1 comes out, you want to merge the changes made by ourselves with the changes made in v1.0 . I can do

Outdate old files including the deleted ones

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Schiele
I would like to outdate revisions that are older than a specific date. My first approach was to do: cvs -d /my/repository rtag -F -D 01/01/1997 OUTDATE mymodule cvs -d /my/repository admin -o ::OUTDATE This worked fine but did not touch files that were already deleted by the given date. So I

Re: Problem with Setting up and logging into CVS

2001-02-15 Thread Larry Jones
Shan Sivakolundhu writes: > > Here is my /etc/inetd.conf entry > cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /developers/local/bin cvs -T/tmp -f >--allow-root=3D/developers/repository pserver I have a strong suspicion that /developers/local/bin should be /developers/local/bin/cvs -- you're asking inetd t

Re: Vendor Tags etc.

2001-02-15 Thread Larry Jones
Robert Longworth writes: > > My question boils down to this, if I have three directories of source code > called (say) > > Program1.0/ > Program1.0-tweeked/ > Program1.1/ > > where 1.0 and 1.1 are the non-modified versions of the source, how do I go > about merging the changes made to 1.0 into

Re: how to connect to a repository?

2001-02-15 Thread Laine Stump
"vidhya d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am facing a problem in cvs. it is that i need to connect to > windows 95 from solaris to access a repository > there .how to > connect to windows 95 /access the repository there from solaris? You don't. Win95 cannot act as a CVS server; only Unix (an

Re: CVS Merge problem - will not merge in new code

2001-02-15 Thread John Mocyk
When does CVS consider a new file not new any more? A few of these files have been modified and I would have thought they would have not been considered new anymore. I have about 137 files that give me this message and they where all new files that have been created in the last 3 months. The file

Re: Issues with raising the 'floor' in CVS

2001-02-15 Thread Rex_Jolliff
>This means that the data wasn't checked out of CVS in the first place. >Import&checkout or add the files before attempting a checkin. This points out an weakness (or at least a perceived one) in CVS in my opinion. There isn't an easy way to add a new 'module' to the repository. Either you us

RE: Kerberos support

2001-02-15 Thread Furmaniuk, Michael
Not sure what this would build, if it will build a server that supports encryption using only these libraries, I had to edit out the first LIBS line as I could not find any libraries for asn1 or roken on my machine after my Kerberos install. if test "$ac_cv_header_gssapi_h" = "yes"; then #

cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mr. Aldo D. Longhi
I like Rex's idea of creating a new way to add a new directory (and contents) to the repo. I do this all the time; "Import" is typically not what I want to do, and I haven't yet written a wrapper script to perform this sequence of actions so I end up doing it manually: cvs -F co -l (To avoid my

ANNOUNCE: Beta for CVS for MVS

2001-02-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
Well, after several years of development (on and off), a full function CVS is now available for OS/390 (AKA MVS) in a beta release. What is CVS and why should I use it? See http://www.cvshome.org. CVS is a source code versioning system. It allows users to manage their source code (as well as w

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Noel L Yap
IIRC, I used to do: cvs co module cd module cp -r from_dir to_dir find to_dir | xargs cvs add Since I haven't done this in a while, I may be missing some syntax in the final command line. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.02.15 12:28:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Noe

Re: 2 "how to <> in CVS" questions

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:06:20AM -0500, Mark O'Brien wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to implement an automated process in which, > just prior to checkin approval, the branch is verified. Then after checkin, > the bug number is attached to that new file version. >From reading your descrip

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:28:18PM -0500, Mr. Aldo D. Longhi wrote: > I like Rex's idea of creating a new way to add > a new directory (and contents) to the repo. > I do this all the time; "Import" is typically not > what I want to do, and I haven't yet written a > wrapper script to perform this s

How can I change the administrative files?

2001-02-15 Thread Busco Bruno
I am working on a Windows 95 local server. I have checked out, added a regular module definition and committed back the modules file but CVS continues to say that the module I look for does not exist. I have modified in the same way the cvswrappers file specifing that *.exe have to be treated with

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mr. Aldo D. Longhi
Mike Castle wrote: >On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:28:18PM -0500, Mr. Aldo D. Longhi wrote: >> I like Rex's idea of creating a new way to add >> a new directory (and contents) to the repo. >> I do this all the time; "Import" is typically not >> what I want to do, and I haven't yet written a >> wrapper

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:37:00PM -0500, Mr. Aldo D. Longhi wrote: > Mike Castle wrote: > >I still can't see what the problem with import is. > > My main problem with "Import" is that it does not insert > all the metadata into my existing directory structure. > So once I import the stuff, I then

Remove files and directories in the module

2001-02-15 Thread Lek Chiaracharuwat
I did an initial import of a directory into the CVS repository, but I stopped (CTRL-C) the process right in the middle because I realized that I was importing the wrong directory. I checked out that module (cvs -q checkout -P eps/cgi) and removed all the files in that module (cvs remove -f *). I

RE: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Chuck . Irvine
> > My main problem with "Import" is that it does not insert > all the metadata into my existing directory structure. > So once I import the stuff, I then have to move it out > of the way (rename the dir) and check everything out > again. "Add" takes care of this for me. > It seems that what

Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Atkinson, Chip
Greetings, I'm trying to set up CVS for a web development project and have come into what appears to be a minor problem and am looking for advice on the best way to fix the problem. We need to all work out of the same directory, which is where the web server works out of and we can't just set

Re: Remove files and directories in the module

2001-02-15 Thread Larry Jones
Lek Chiaracharuwat writes: > > I did an initial import of a directory into the CVS > repository, but I stopped (CTRL-C) the process right > in the middle because I realized that I was importing > the wrong directory. You might want to upgrade to the current release of CVS (1.11) -- it won't let

Re: How can I change the administrative files?

2001-02-15 Thread Larry Jones
Busco Bruno writes: > > I am working on a Windows 95 local server. > I have checked out, added a regular module definition and committed back the > modules file but CVS continues to say that the module I look for does not > exist. Use forward slashes instead of backward slashes in $CVSROOT and a

Strange conflicts as a result of merging a branch into the main trunk

2001-02-15 Thread Jacob Burckhardt
Reinstein, Shlomo writes: > Hi, > > I have encountered merge conflicts that are very strange to me: > At some point during the development of a project, we created a branch from > the main trunk. A lot of work was done in that branch, but ever since the > branch was created, NO work was done on m

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
You want to use UNIX group permissions. Change the entire repository (including CVSROOT) to be owned by the same group. Then change everything to have group write access. Then make sure that everyone you want to be able to access the repository is a member of that group (no one you don't want t

RE: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Chris Chambers
If you can't do different sandboxes for each developer, you won't be liking concurrent source control systems. For shared resources, you need locking version control (RCS or something). Even with a shared "cvsdeveloper" account, you'd have issues with overwrites. I've been staring at this ugly f

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Larry Jones
Atkinson, Chip writes: > > Is there some other way that we can all use the same sandbox without > resorting to a generic login? Always use the -d global option on the command line -- it overrides what's in CVS/Repository. -Larry Jones Wow, how existential can you get? -- Hobbes __

RE: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Atkinson, Chip
Could you elaborate on this a bit? I looked through the man page on cvs and it looks like -d only takes a directory as an argument. Unfortunately too, I'm stuck with WinCVS or some other GUI thing that works under Windows for the rest of the people who are going to use CVS. Thanks, Chip >

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Larry Jones
Atkinson, Chip writes: > > Could you elaborate on this a bit? I looked through the man page on cvs and > it looks like -d only takes a directory as an argument. You're probably looking at the -d option for one of the subcommands; I'm talking about the -d global option that comes before the subc

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Wayne_Johnson
I asked basically the same question earlier. You can use the -d option to override the value of "mine" that is saved in the CVS/Cvsroot file. "Atkinson, Chip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/15/2001 02:08:04 PM To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc:(bcc: Wayne Johnson/MINN/Can

Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update()

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Sander
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: >> Laine Stump writes: >> > >> > What I'm wondering is if we could change the "sleep(1); to be a >> > usleep(200) in a while loop instead. This should trim 1/2 a second >> > from each invocation of commit, on av

RE: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Matt Smith
Don't know how much it will help, but the jCVS client allows you to type parameters to commands (as opposed to setting them like in wincvs). -Original Message- From: Atkinson, Chip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 February 2001 7:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Kerberos support: Makefile mod

2001-02-15 Thread Tracy Brown
Regarding compiling CVS-1.11 with krb51.2.1 I found that the Makefile was incorrect with it's referece to the crypto libraries. To fix this I modified the LIBS reference in the src/Makefile. For example: -- the configure -- ./configure --with-gssapi=/usr/local/krb5 --enable-encrypt --enable-serv

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:43:32PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ["cvs add --new" wanted because "cvs import" doesn't insert metadata] > > It seems that what is being asked for is a CVS command to convert a > regular directory into a cvs workspace directory so that it isn't > necessary to

Re: Issues with raising the 'floor' in CVS

2001-02-15 Thread Stephen Rasku
Rex Jolliff wrote: >This points out an weakness (or at least a perceived one) in CVS in my >opinion. There isn't an easy way to add a new 'module' to the repository. >Either you use import, which doesnt necessarily make sence if you're a >developer of original code and there is no vendor. The

RE: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Rex_Jolliff
Actually I comment was meant to point out a percieved flaw in CVS. When I show developers CVS in the environment that I work, putting new projects into CVS is always a place that they see weakness in CVS as they either have to pretend they are their own vendor, or use the top level dir checkou

perl pserver client?

2001-02-15 Thread Russ Tremain
Hi - Is anyone aware of a perl pserver client for cvs? I'm interested in this for a reporting hook. thanks for any pointers... -Russ ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Any one have a automated script written or know about utility for upgrade

2001-02-15 Thread andy_cool_2000
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RE: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Atkinson, Chip
Thanks! Actually this is probably the course of action I was thinking of taking. With the suggestions from others on the list, I was able to commit files that weren't "mine" using the command line on the W2K box, but it appears that WinCVS doesn't provide enough control over the command line tha

Any professional training available for CVS or Seminar or class?

2001-02-15 Thread andy_cool_2000
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RE: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Atkinson, Chip
Thanks for the response. Yes, the directories and files in the repository are indeed readable by the group and all of us are in the same group. The problem is that my co worker can't check things in as himself. It appears that CVSROOT doesn't have any effect over what user is used during a cvs

CVS & GSSAPI

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Due to some compilation failures on some systems I have revamped the configure code to look for individual GSSAPI libraries. The interesting bit is that I managed to remove four out of five of the libraries we were attempting to use under Linux and it compiles and links fine. To think I spent se

Re: CVS & GSSAPI

2001-02-15 Thread Stephen Rasku
> >Due to some compilation failures on some systems I have revamped the >configure code to look for individual GSSAPI libraries. > >The interesting bit is that I managed to remove four out of five of the >libraries we were attempting to use under Linux and it compiles and >links fine. To think

Strange symptom with cvs status when merge between branches

2001-02-15 Thread Matthew Berney
We are using a CVS pserver model with Linix Server and NT clients. We are running CVS v1.10.8. We have three branches in the repository: IP2, IP3, R2_0 When we merge files between IP2 and IP3, then do a cvs status on R2_0, then some of the files show up as "Needs Patch". I am confused. Why

Re: questions on cvs locking

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:54:02PM -0500, Yuhe Liu wrote: > We are using CVS for CM. It came with a problem that multiple developers > were updating > a same file. Although cvs provides lock/unlock commands, it seems not > convenient. Well, CVS was designed to explicitly allow multiple developers

questions on cvs locking

2001-02-15 Thread Yuhe Liu
Hi, We are using CVS for CM. It came with a problem that multiple developers were updating a same file. Although cvs provides lock/unlock commands, it seems not convenient. The command cvs admin -l/-u only allows those users in cvsadmin group to execute. But e can not let every developer be in t

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
"Atkinson, Chip" wrote: > It appears that CVSROOT doesn't have any effect over what user is used > during a cvs login. Thus, even if my CVSROOT is set to > smith@cvshost:/cvsrep/path > and I type in cvs login from the W2K command line (cygwin bash shell) I get > > (Logging in to catkinson@cvshos

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Chris Chambers wrote: > I've been staring at this ugly fact for a while... if it's at all possible > to do the gruntwork required to create a sandbox for each developer, I'd > recommend going that route. Otherwise, I recommend a locking model. 'cvs co projectname'? Derek -- Derek Price

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
"Atkinson, Chip" wrote: > We need to all work out of the same directory, which is where the web server > works out of and we can't just set up multiple web servers because it's not > just a regular Apache or IIS setup. There have been several threads on this topic recently. You should search on

Re: CVS Merge problem - will not merge in new code

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
John Mocyk wrote: > When does CVS consider a new file not new any more? A few of these files have been > modified and I would have thought they would have not been considered new anymore. A file is new _within a workspace_ if the file was not checked out by CVS, but created and 'cvs add'ed, and

Re: perl pserver client?

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Russ Tremain wrote: > Is anyone aware of a perl pserver client for cvs? > I'm interested in this for a reporting hook. Grep on CPAN (perl -MCPAN -eshell) for /CVS/. There are two CVS perl modules, both subsets of the VCS module. I played with one a long time ago and it wasn't very functional,

Re: Lock files preventing tagging ?

2001-02-15 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
Does CVS not operate on the ,v files directly. Or does it create RCS files and then renames them to the corresponding ,v files. I am using :pserver: method to connect to the repository - which is running cvs 1.10.7, the client is also a 1.10.7 client Thanks Shubho --- Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROT

Importing another CVS project [x2]

2001-02-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
So, does no response mean "you can't do it"? :( > So, I have a CVS archive, and I want to start making local > modifications. What I want to do is check out a workspace of the > original code (which I've already done). I only have anon pserver > access, I can't get the _actual_ repository, only

Re: Importing another CVS project [x2]

2001-02-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pds> So, does no response mean "you can't do it"? :( D'oh! Somehow I never noticed the section "How to handle binary files with cvs import" in the manual before :(. Never mind. -- ---

Re: Website development

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Harrison
Atkinson, Chip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need to all work out of the same directory, which is where the web server > works out of and we can't just set up multiple web servers because it's not > just a regular Apache or IIS setup. > > When I check out the files for the web site they are "

Problems with adding binary file of size 200 meg

2001-02-15 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
Hi, I wanted to add a 200 meg binary file to the repository. I did cvs add -kb file.z and then cvs ci file.z CVS comes out with the following error message hash.c:312: failed assertion `key != NULL' Terminated with fatal signal 6 cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvsBAA0obPJJ I a