[Dxspider-support] What's the deal with CVS?

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Mon May 22 12:05:59 BST 2006


And I am remiss, again, in not explaining what is going on.

As you all, I think, know: SF has been experiencing problems with its
CVS servers for a while. Well, a couple of weeks ago one of the
developer CVS machines (or maybe *the* machine) died. As a result of
this and the many complaints that they had about anonymous CVS, they
have revamped the whole system.

This means that they have distributed the CVS archive onto many machines
and, further, they can continue doing this indefinitely as demand
grows. 

The fix they have introduced is to create a "personal" CVS hierarchy for
each project, complete with its own DNS name. This means that all the
Root files in the /spider directory will need to be updated with the new
DNS name (i.e. add "dxspider." in front of the "cvs.sourceforge.net"
part of the address).

When this has been done you are, in effect, logging into a new CVS
repository so you will have to do a cvs login, just once, to continue as
before.

However, after they had informed me of this, I tried it (together with
Angel EA7WA) and we discovered that there were still problems at their
end. I am hoping that these were just a (rather long) glitch doing the
massive job of migrating all the projects.

As it appears that it is now working, here are some further and more
detailed instructions. 

After executing the shell script that I issued in my last message, you
will need to do:

$ cd /spider
$ cvs login 
password: <return key>
$ cvs update -d

and all should be as before. Hopefully without all the hit and miss we
were all experiencing.

NOTE: The cvs login step needs only to be done ONCE and for the
password: just press the <return> or <enter> key.

I am hoping that someone else can help the Windows users...
(helppppp...)

Dirk 

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 09:32 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 22:34 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > On May 21, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> > 
> > > I have been unable to connect to the CVS repository for days.
> > >
> > > I tried what was suggested in a Sourceforge support group, i.e.  
> > > change the Root
> > > file to point to spider.cvs.sourceforge.net but now I need a  
> > > password to get to
> > > the repository.
> > >
> > > What's going on?
> > >
> > > Thanks & 73 - Jim AD1C
> > >
> > 
> > I changed the Root file in each CVS directory as follows and it is  
> > working for me:
> > 
> > :pserver:anonymous at dxspider.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxspider
> > 
> 
> Ok, the secret is out. And I am sorry I have not posted about it. The
> trouble is that when I tried it, it (the new sf CVS repository) did not
> work, so I was waiting until it did. 
> 
> Here is a shell script that will do what is required for *nix users.
> Run it as your "sysop" user.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # change the old SF CVS root to the new one
> #
> echo ':pserver:anonymous at dxspider.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxspider' > /tmp/newroot
> cd /spider
> find . -name Root -exec cp -f /tmp/newroot {} \;
> 
> 
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