Re: Setting up first repository

[Pierre Asselin]

Roddie <address@hidden> wrote:

> [a test repository] is a good idea and I've been trying it.
> I can log in OK, but when I try
> to import a trial project using "cvs -d
> :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/CVS import myProj no-vendor release-0"
> I get "cvs [import aborted]: reading CVS/Tag: Not a directory".

pserver ?  Why not just :local:/usr/local/CVS ?  No xinetd, no login,
no passwords to set up...

When you put a cvs server on your colocation box I recommend :ext:
with CVS_RSH=ssh and public key authentication.  I assume
you already have the ssh part set up ?  Othwerwise how do you
reach your colocated machine ?


> I may also have Unix permission problems - I had to make CVSROOT chmod 757
> (though there may be "lesser" options - Unix permissions are not instinctive
> yet!)

The usual directory permissions are 770 + setgid to a group to which
all the developers belong.  The setgid bit (on Linux) is to make sure
any subdirectories inherit the group of their parents.

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