[lug] cvs pserver

[D. Stimits]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:49:23PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> > Nope. This is an old and well-used cvs root, and the only time it
> > requires reading of /root/.cvsignore is when done via pserver. Any user
> > with login ability can currently do a checkout or export from the local
> > machine, it is only pserver that it dies on.
> >
> > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> Weirdness.
> 
> [Reaching for copy of "Open Source Development with CVS"... or maybe
> grepping the source code...]

I use this same book.

> 
> What version of CVS?

cvs-1.10.7-7 (rpm)

> 
> Debian's boot-floppies team has a nasty weirdness going on with their
> CVS server right now -- some binary files that have to be included in
> the CVS tree, even when checked into CVS properly as binaries, cause
> anonymous pserver downloads to abort and die.  Again SSH works.  Weird,
> eh?

Apparently ssh does something the normal pserver fails at. It's fine
with me to use just ssh for this, but it is odd the way pserver fails.

> 
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