Re: pserver issue

[Larry Jones]

Frank Gilmurray writes:
> 
> Currently our local users use NFS to access the CVS repositories.  We
> are also using pserver for our remote users.

This is an extremely bad idea -- we've had many reports of repositories
being corrupted by NFS interoperability bugs.  I strongly suggest using
client/server CVS instead.

> The CVSROOT/module file runs a script that creates some symbolic links
> and this works fine via NFS but not with pserver (the script is executed
> on the server, not the client).

The usual suggest is to create the links as part of the build process
rather than as part of the checkout process.

-Larry Jones

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