Setting up a CVS Server

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Contents 1 Setting up a CVS Server 2 Using the cvs to retrieve wickle projects from the source 3 How to use cvs through ssh over a different port 4 Installing kernel 2.6 under debian

Setting up a CVS Server

http://www.pointless.nl/~peter/stuff/cvs-server.html

Using the cvs to retrieve wickle projects from the source

From the linux command line you can retrieve an application easily:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@213.60.51.54:/usr/local/cvsroot/wickle
cvs login (with password cvs )
cvs co Project_to_retrieve

more easy :

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jadminusers login 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jadminusers co Project_to_retrieve

You can use a graphical interface, like:

• TortoiseCVS (for windows is the best)
• smartcvs (on java)
• cervisia (only for linux)
• wincvs (the classic for all OS)

How to use cvs through ssh over a different port

Naively i assumed that connecting to a cvs server over ssh over a different port, is just a matter of

cvs -d :ext:michi@cvs.some.server.com:12345/opt/cvs co MyProject

But this results in the following error:

CVSROOT port specification is only valid for gserver, kserver, and pserver connection methods.

According to this posting -> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-10/msg00291.html it seems, that it is necessary to define an ssh-Alias by adding the following lines to ~/.ssh/config:

Host SomeCvsServer

 HostKeyAlias cvs.some.server.com
 Hostname some.server.com
 Port 2222

Then the following command will be rewarded with success:

cvs -d :ext:michi@SomeCvsServer:/opt/cvs co MyProject

borrowed from http://michi.knallgrau.at/blog/stories/1133864/#1272480

Installing kernel 2.6 under debian

just follow this excelent link