CVS

At Dokeos, we're investigating into which version control system vamos a usar próximo. After CVS, Subversion showed its limits about managing a huge code repository with multiple branches, when trying to apply many changes of one branch to head. The two most interesting systems remaining are Git and Mercurial. Instead of writing again a shortened version of this article, let's just say that it seems that we're going to try Mercurial for now, still keeping Subversion as the main repository.

Terminology

Term	Definition
Module	Typically, the CVS name for the development project directory
Checkout	The action of downloading a module the first time
Commit	The action of submitting a change in one or more files to CVS
Diff	A list of differences between two versions of a file or a set of files
Vendor Tag	Indicates the supplier of this module - used for branches naming
Release Tag	Indicates

This article was first written in May 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/334).

Basically, moving a CVS repository itself is not really difficult. Let's assume first that we don't use the pserver mode of CVS, which is known to be weak with respect to security. We use then the SSH transport to access the CVS server, which we strongly recommend. On Debian, the CVS repository is located by default in /var/lib/cvs. At install time, a debconf question asked you where to set it.

This article was first written in July 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/284).

Introduction

This article mainly describes several tricks to admin a CVS install on RHFC2.

Adding a user

Adding a user for pserver is done by updating the CVSROOT/passwd file in the CVS modules repository.

This article was first written in May 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/259).

Introduction

This article is intended to help system administrators with very moderate knowledge of RedHat Fedora (Core 2) install ViewCVS 0.9.3

Getting the file

Apparently, there is no packaged version of ViewCVS for RHFC2 coming from a reliable source, so go get it on SourceForge (in this case, Ireland mirror) - ViewCVS from SourceForge