Re: cvs on mandrake...

2003-06-28 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 12:44, Kent E wrote: > I can’t find any cvs for mandrake, are they available? If you mean the Mandrake distribution of Linux, then yes, absolutely. It's just the standard Linux/Unix distribution of CVS. It's probably already in the standard Mandrake distribution (check your

Re: cvs login

2003-06-20 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 03:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK a bit more progress here now this message: > > cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from : cvs > pserver: cannot open /CVS/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied > (for the archives, for the next person with this problem): I talke

Re: how to send email notifications on commits

2003-06-20 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 19:32, Tiziana Biondo wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to know how to configure the loginfo file to send email > notifications on commits; I am using WinCVS 1.2 on Windows2000... > Thanks in advance > Tiziana This is one way of doing it: > > _

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 01:02, Frederic Brehm wrote: > At 10:08 AM 6/5/2003, Larry Jones wrote: > >There's nothing I hate more than software that thinks it > >knows more than I do and refuses to let me do what I want to do. > > The principal of least surprises should be Commandment #1 of the Softwar

Re: web site management / security issues

2003-06-06 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 02:38, Menge, Oliver wrote: > My second question is about client/server cvs, which is rather new to me. > The internet host where I would like to have the repository is a W2K > machine and I have to live with that. Cederquist says: > I have not much idea of Windows' security

Re: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification withchanges introduced into committed file version

2003-06-06 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 22:38, Uri Abramov wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions : > > 1. Is it possible to add new administrative file under CVSROOT in such way that it > would be treated by cvs as it treads it's native administrative files. I mean always > keep in repository file,v and file.

Re: new file side-branch to side-branch

2003-06-03 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 02:23, Johnson, Susan wrote: > I have a set of new files that exist in side branch BranchA > and never in the main trunk. > > I want to create a version in my build branch BranchB. > > Is it possible to do so without merging from BranchA to the > main trunk and creating Bran

Re: Query regarding Branches in CVS

2003-04-04 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 01:20, Amit Sood wrote: > Hi all, > > I have one query regarding the working of CVS > > I am using CVS to maintain my project files and have released one version of > it.I have made a branch of the target at this juncture with tag RELBRANCH1 > Now simulatneous development is

Re: notify

2003-01-31 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:04, Monica Li wrote: > Hi, > > I couldn't change the file notify. Notify is under repository/CVSROOT > directory. it also has .v. it means I need checkout before make any changes. > right? But it's not under any module. How can I checkout this file, change > the file, get

Re: Help Required:

2003-01-30 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:54, Amit Sharma wrote: > HI All, > I am getting a strange warning message while getting the source from > CVS. > > cvs server: cannot read /CVS/research/CVSROOT/users: Too many open files in > system. > cvs server: cannot open /CVS/research/CVSROOT/notify: Too many o

Re: Branch aliasing

2003-01-30 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:18, Simon Scott wrote: > Does anybody know of any issues with this or better way to achieve what I > want? module A: common components. module B: diverse components. When working on common components, use module A. Consider having a 'floating' tag called 'stable'. Whe

Re: Bug Tracking

2003-01-29 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 01:33, Zieg, Mark wrote: > > > CVS's support for bug > > > tracking is poor to nonexistent and many people have commented on > > > it and requested better support. > > > > That's because CVS is not a bug tracking tool. It's an archive > > system. Only an archive system. I

Re: Bug tracking.

2003-01-29 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 18:17, Mike Ayers wrote: > Steven Buroff wrote: > > I would like to vote for this feature too. > > This open source. Only patches count as votes. > > > CVS's support for bug > > tracking is poor to nonexistent and many people have commented on > > it and requested bet

RE: Merging in CVS

2002-11-22 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 05:28, MacMunn, Robert wrote: > It isn't a slick interface. In Clearcase it is the merge tool itself that > gives you the ability to deal with the conflicts easily. Check the various CVS graphical clients - some of them display the conflicts in merges in a merge tool. It soun

Re: Merging in CVS

2002-11-22 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 03:35, MacMunn, Robert wrote: > > > I am new to CVS. I am testing out merging. > > When I merged 2 files I got extra lines teling me where the merged lines > where. > Is there any way around this ? This means that the same lines were changed in the two files, and CVS does

Re: Rtag ?

2002-11-21 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 09:25, Matthew Rich wrote: > I have been asked to tag (and branch) a module. The > Problem is that there are no current tags for that > build they want to branch on. > Can I, using Rtag -D , specifiy a date/time of the > build and tag all the files that were current on that

Re: How can i make sensable release notes off of the history log?

2002-11-20 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 06:25, Adam Braa wrote: > Has anyone been tasked to make release notes out of the history log > file? > I was wondering if there is a perl script or anything out there that > will make the history file more organized. Right now the history log > file is 10mb and has many dupl

Re: Branches and Dates

2002-11-19 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:06, Larry Jones wrote: > Eric Siegerman writes: > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:16:47AM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: > > > You need to specify both the branch and the date. Unfortunately, not > > > all CVS subcommands allow both -D and -r at the same time [...] > > > > W

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-19 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 00:25, Robert Koster wrote: > > > I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without > > > keys). Pros/cons? > > > > Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys will forcibly > > invoke username/password login, which will gag the CVS client. >

Re: How to make "update -d" ignore a top-level directory?

2002-11-18 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:02, Shankar Unni wrote: > How can I achieve what I want: to be able to: > > * not have to set CVSROOT in the environment. > * Be able to issue an "update -d" from the root of my work area, and > * not get that junk directory? > > Is there a way? I'm trying to avoid h

Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts

2002-11-16 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:25, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 12:18:19 (+0100), Fredrik Wendt wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts > > > > True, but to us, there's actually only one developer, person X. > > Then why even bother with remote access via C

Re: Reverting a vendor-branch import

2002-10-27 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 00:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have performed a vendor-barnch import. I have started the merging > procedure, and half way to this I want to "revert" (undo) the whole > import thing. Before doing the import I have tagged my tree with, say, > T1. How can I do it? 1. Smart

Re: using cvs to contol system files

2002-10-23 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 05:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone out there used to cvs to version control system files? > For instance, files in /etc. > > I'm working with 2 system admins who want to do this. We were going to make > the 'live' files a sandbox that they would share. I was hoping

RE: deleting modules

2002-10-22 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 23:04, Stefan Immel wrote: > > $ REPO=/usr/local/cvsroot ; # change this to whatever you use > > $ MODULE=my_module; # change this to your module name > > $ cd $REPO > > $ tar zcvf ~/$MODULE.tgz $MODULE ; # make a backup just in case > > $ rm -rf $MODU

Re: AW: Multiple cvs users in one checkout area

2002-10-21 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 17:05, Andreas Otte wrote: > > Von: Mr. Cristian Romanescu [mailto:c.romanescu@;finsiel.ro] > > Why doesn't each user checkout his own version of the project > > and works > > on it and then commits changes? > > Why must you have one checkout area? This is the role of cvs s

Re: How do i tag only on branched module

2002-10-21 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 17:29, Ravish A.S wrote: > Hi, > I am newbie to cvs. I have created two branches from main trunk. Then I > tried to labeled the branches separately. it worked fine. Then later i have > added new files to each branches. This time I tried to label branches , but > it didn't

Re: Binary files and cvswrappers

2002-10-19 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 01:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having finished - I now realise that there are one or two extensions that > I should have included in the cvswrappers (actually the extensions weren't > used in the first version of the product but appeared in the last 10 > releases). > S

Re: (no subject)

2002-10-15 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 17:33, John Noronha wrote: > How can one remove a "branch" after "merging" it with the "main branch" ? There is no specific way that I am aware of to mark a branch 'closed' or 'not to be used anymore'. If you really want to remove the historic record of the branch ever havi

Re: Updating third party software

2002-10-14 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 03:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > The problem with the vendor branch is that it starts at version 1.1 of every > file (1.1.1.1 really, but that's an internal detail). You cannot start > a vendor branch somewhere halfway up your trunk, so vendor branching is > useless for the case

Re: cvs diff on repository

2002-10-11 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 03:47, Larry Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > cvs rdiff: [10:00:50] waiting for automan's lock in > > /home/cvs_automation/CVSROOT > > > > It will loop there until I Ctrl-C it. Apparently rdiff doesn't like to > > be run from within loginfo. Any way around

Re: Tag locking change

2002-10-09 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 05:40, Adam Bregenzer wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:58, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > My point was that you can do the same thing more reliably with a "cvs > > update" in a working directory that is the DocumentRoot. > But then it wouldn't be automagic, it would be whenever

Re: Tag locking change

2002-10-09 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 04:26, Adam Bregenzer wrote: > It has nothing to do with the client, it's all > *server* side. I see no reason for it to bve tied to an update, I don't > even know how to execute a server-side script on update and wouldn't > want to anyways. > While there > are several bett

Re: Add proxy support to cvs?

2002-10-09 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 17:17, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > Hi > > At the moment I'm using WinCvs because it's the only way to get over > our company proxy. It's not possible with native cvs. But I'd like to work > with normal cvs so I can also use it on the Linux box. The guys from > WinCvs added prox

Re: file locking in cvs

2002-10-08 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 22:18, Iqbal Shaikh wrote: > Hi all, > > Would like to know if we need to edit any admin file in CVSROOT > to enable locking of files in cvs. Check info cvs, especially 'Multiple Developers' and the subheadings under Multiple Developers called 'Watches' and 'Choosing a mode

Re: Read only file

2002-10-08 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 02:03, dd hh wrote: > > Hi everyone, > Thanks a lot for the help :-) . But I am not able to understand >why read only directory is required in CVS. Why can't we have directories which has >both read and write permission and in that directories files with