Re: [rox-devel] CVS snapshots

[Thomas L. <ta...@le...>]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Andy Piper wrote:

> Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW, with regard to CVS snapshots - yes please; my PC doesn't have an
> > > internet connection and the university computers don't have CVS.
> > 
> > Hmm... maybe I spoke too soon. Anyone know how to update a checked-out
> > CVS from inside sourceforge? cvs.rox.sourceforge.net doesn't seem to
> > answer internal requests :-(
> 
> Are you trying to run a cron job to do a cvs update on a
> nightly basis, or something?

That was the plan, but I can't get CVS to work at all:

[tal197@aravis ~] ssh shell.sourceforge.net
...
[tal197@orbital tal197]$ cvs \
-d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/rox login
(Logging in to ano...@cv...)
CVS password:

I press Return and then it hangs there :-(
Same thing happens with developer access. Does it work for you?

> If so, I believe the reason that it won't work is that ssh
> requires a controlling shell. I had a similar problem with
> OpenUT - I had planned to update the website from a copy
> held in CVS every twleve hours, but it faltered on that
> point. I could run my shell script when logged in, but not
> from cron.

Well, I'd prefer to use anon access (which shouldn't require ssh, although
it might work as I've uploaded my public key to the CVS server). That way,
after you've downloaded the snapshot you could use `cvs update' to keep it
current...

> If not... pass :-/ 
> 'cvs update' should work from an ssh session to
> shell.sourceforge.net, it always has for me anyway.

Odd :-( Maybe I'll have to file a support request...


Thomas Leonard
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