Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-19 Thread Derek Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Tags never get removed from val-tags." Why? If I delete a tag, I I want to, well, delete it! Only because it would be a lot of overhead to traverse the entire repository to make sure that _ALL_ files are really missing the tag. In other words, just because you execute

Re: WinCVS Administration (Date and Time modification)

2005-01-19 Thread Derek Price
Mary Lou RODRIGUEZ wrote: I want to change the date/time of the server so that we can pick-up our local time and be used for the objects being checked in. I'm not sure what you are requesting here, but using a CVS server version 1.12.9 or later and a CVS client version 1.12.10 or later will ca

Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-19 Thread Derek Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek Price writes: Since tag deletion is considered a relatively rare operation (as well it should be), no one has ever bother to write the code for the expensive, complete tag search that would be necessary to determine if the tag is really completely gone and should

Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek Price writes: Well, "fixing" it this way would put us back in the position where checkouts and updates could sometimes report that tags don't exist when they do. I think this is worse than not checking out any data when the tag doesn't exist i

Re: Security Breach Alert - CVS Home File Download Area Compromised

2005-01-26 Thread Derek Price
Conrad T. Pino wrote: Kenneth this message sheds more light regarding Java servlet as not likely to be an issue as I've tested down to the final redirect in a double redirection process used for file downloads. Hey Conrad, Just a quick thought. I'm on the road and don't have time for more. I'

Stable CVS Version 1.11.19 Released!

2005-02-03 Thread Derek Price
Stable CVS 1.11.19 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This version fixes several minor bugs in both the CVS client and server executables including an intermittent assertion failure on checkout. This versions also includes all the files n

Stable CVS Version 1.11.20 Released! Security Update

2005-04-18 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stable CVS 1.11.20 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This version fixes many minor security issues in the CVS server executable including a potentially serious buffer overflow vulnerability with

Re: CVS Feature Version 1.12.12 Released! * Security Update *

2005-04-18 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Price wrote: > We recommend this upgrade for all CVS servers! Cut and paste error. Should have read: > We recommend this upgrade for all CVS clients and servers already > running the feature release and for those who simply lik

CVS Feature Version 1.12.12 Released! * Security Update *

2005-04-18 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Feature CVS 1.12.12 has been released. Feature releases contain new features as well as all the bug fixes from the stable releases. This version fixes many minor security issues in the CVS server executable including a potentially serious buffer over

Re: Possible Spam: Re: CVS and SSH V2

2005-07-06 Thread Derek Price
Matt Doar wrote: >>>:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:22\appl\cvs\ole >>> >>> > >I believe you have to use: > >:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:22:/appl/cvs/ole > > You are correct about the forward slashes, but not the extra colon. Also, specifying a port number to the :ext: method will be ignored at best.

Re: Possible Spam: Re: CVS and SSH V2

2005-07-06 Thread Derek Price
Derek Price wrote: >Also, specifying a port number to the :ext: method will be ignored at >best. (it wouldn't be hard to add support for it, but no one has done so). > > Excuse me - it would be hard to do in a general way using the current CVSROOT conventions since the

Re: Possible Spam: Re: CVS and SSH V2

2005-07-06 Thread Derek Price
Matt Doar wrote: >Derek, > >From the CVS manual, I see CVSROOT is indeed specified as: > >[:method:][[user][:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[port]]/path/to/repository > > You specified a colon *after* the port field: Matt Doar wrote: >I believe you have to use: > >:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:22:/appl/cvs/ole

Re: Possible Spam: Re: CVS and SSH V2

2005-07-07 Thread Derek Price
Russ Sherk wrote: >I think you can put the port into CVS_RSH. Here is mine on winXP using plink: > >Z:\>echo %CVS_RSH% >"d:\Tools\plink.exe" -ssh -pw "xx" >Z:\>echo %CVSROOT% >:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs >--- >Does this not work on linux? > > No. It's an implementation dif