Re: Changing CVS repository name

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Lars Thuring <address@hidden> writes:

> we want to use a new directory for our repository. It is currently
> residing in
> 
>       /data/cvsroot
> 
> and using Red Hat 7.2. That repository is working correctly. It is a NFS
> mounted directory.

You do know that NFS is usually a bad idea for a repository right?

> The steps we take are
> 
> 1) Rename the above to
> 
>       /data/cvsroot_old
> 
> 2) Create a new dir called
> 
>       /data/cvsrep
> 
> 3) Execute
> 
>       cvs -data /data/cvsrep init

Typo? Should be:

        cvs -d /data/cvsrep init
> 
> 4) Copy the passwd file from the previous repository.

Where did you copy it to? /data/cvsrep/CVSROOT/passwd ?
 
> 5) We change the file /etc/xinet.d/cvspserver to point at the new location.
> 
> 6) We change access rights, mainly to 775. Set the owner and group to
> "cvs" which is also the user defined in /data/cvsrep/CVSROOT/passwd.
> This is the same passwd file as in the previous repository.
> 
> 7) Restarting
> 
>       /etc/init.d/network restart
>       /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
> 
> 
> Needless to say this doesn't work when we try to access the fresh
> repository... regardless of what we do we get
> 
>       address@hidden lth]$ cvs login
>       Logging in to :pserver:address@hidden:2401/data/cvsrep
>       CVS password:
>       /data/cvsrep: no such repository
> 
> 
> This error message comes regardless of if we fake a user, use the
> correct values and so on.
> 
> We suspected there was some config file which links directly to
> /data/cvsroot, but a grep on the whole harddisk revealed nothing.
> 
> There is nothing in ~/.cvsrc on the client machines.
> 
> So now we are feeling rather lost (read stupid) having googled and
> how-to'ed through anything we can think of - where is the problem?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> lars

You might consider looking at the output of:

    diff -r /data/cvsrep/CVSROOT /data/cvsroot_old/CVSROOT

to see if anything else is different.

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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