Re: What's up with the CVS sever?

Michael> Steve Youngs writes: Michael> Switching to pserver in the mule directory has helped Michael> somewhat (at least, with downloading) However, this is very Michael> inconvenient. Michael> Perhaps I don't know how to do it properly, but I have to edit CVS/Root by Michael> hand to replace :ext:michaelk＠ to :pserver:xemacs＠ Michael> Besides, I think cvs update only looks at CVS/Root in the top directory Michael> where it is invoked. (Didn't check now, but I think I ran into it before.) Michael> So, if this is true, it means that updating the entire package tree might Michael> be more complicated than usual. Although the following is a bug workaround, it's also a good idea - like not running as `root' by default. Do your cvs checkouts using :pserver: . If you've done a checkout using :ext:, you can change all your CVS/Root files using a script (but just once). Some versions of CVS update the CVS/Root files when you run cvs commands with a different -d flag `$CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT' For CVS 1.10 and older, setting this variable prevents CVS from overwriting the `CVS/Root' file when the `-d' global option is specified. Later versions of CVS do not rewrite `CVS/Root', so `CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT' has no effect. I use the following `cvs-rw' script to run non-read-only CVS commands. Identical to the `cvs' command otherwise. Customize two lines below for your own use. : #-*- Perl -*- eval 'exec perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$＠"}' # Portability kludge if 0; # Author: Martin Buchholz use strict; (my $myName = $0) =~ s＠.*/＠＠; my $usage=" Usage: $myName cvs-arg ... Run cvs in r/w mode. The idea is to do most CVS operations, especially checkout, in read-only, or anonymous :pserver: mode, and only switch to ssh/:ext: mode when performing write operations\n"; die $usage if !＠ARGV || $ARGV[0] eq '-h'; die "Not a CVS repository\n" unless -r "CVS/Root"; open (ROOT, "< CVS/Root") or die "CVS/Root: $!"; chomp (my $root = <ROOT>); # Make $root writable by switching from :pserver: to :ext: # Modify the following two lines for your own CVS commits: $root =~ s/:pserver:anonymous＠(?=.*\bsourceforge\.net:)/:ext:mrb＠/; $root =~ s/:pserver:xemacs＠(?=.*\bcvs\.xemacs\.org:)/:ext:martinb＠/; $ENV{CVS_RSH} = 'ssh'; $ENV{CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT} = 'yes'; exec 'cvs', '-w', '-z3', '-d', $root, ＠ARGV or die "Can't run cvs: $!\n";