Re: Changed IP of cvs server,then it can't update !

[Jim Hyslop]

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Jason Brown wrote:
> ?  I've had to deal with this rather regularly as a result of changing ip 
> addresses without a good hostname to checkout from.  It seemed annoying, but 
> not difficult to work with...I'm sure it would only take two minutes to write 
> a shellscript to handle it.

Someone's already done it. Have a look at the newcvsroot script,
distributed in the 'contrib' directory of the source code.

> If I've been doing something horribly wrong here (other than having a 
> repository running off of DHCP ...there was no way around *that* 
> unfortunately), or there is an existing tool for this, somebody please tell 
> me.  It would be quite bad if I had somehow risked corruption of the working 
> copy I had done this for.

OK, I must be missing something here. The whole point of hostnames is to
avoid having to worry about IP addresses. Why do people (you're not the
only one, I see this all the time) insist on hard-coding IP addresses?
Is it really that hard to set up hostnames and DNS systems?

Heck, even adding an entry to /etc/hosts would work, then all you have
to do is modify one line and away you go.

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Jim Hyslop
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