Re: cvs add problem: "protocol error: Malformed Entry"

[Georg Baum]

Roger James wrote:

> Has anyone got any further info on this problem.
> 
> I am also using cvs-1.11.1p1-332 on SuSE 8.1 and have just encountered the
> same problem. The server is only accessible locally and this is first time
> I have tried to import a new module since the patch was applied. The
> client is wincvs 1.3.17.2 Beta 17 (Build 2). I was about to make this
> server accessible from outside which was the reason I applied the update
> in the first place!

It is a bug in the SuSE package. I got mails from  several people who had
exactly this problem. You can try to get SuSE to fix it, or you could
compile the latest stable cvs yourself. I got a nice commandline to that by
Wolfram Schlich:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://ccvs.cvshome.org/files/documents/19/191/cvs-1.11.17.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf cvs-1.11.17.tar.bz2
$ cd cvs-1.11.17
$ ./configure \
        --prefix=/usr/local \
        --infodir=/usr/local/share/info \
        --mandir=/usr/local/share/man \
        --sysconfdir=/etc
$ make
$ su -c "make install"


Georg