Re: CVS Unix to Linux Migration

[Yves Dorfsman]

Amaresh Chandra Das wrote:
> 1- if the migration is more involved than simply tarballing the repository
> from the old server and untarring and mounting it on the new server?
> Meaning, the repository is independent and not affected by the old OS in any
> way as far as file system or formatting or any other thing go.  What else do
> I need to do on the old server to prepare?

Yes, although, if you have put your lock directories in a different place, 
you will need to create those on the new server. The other catch, is that 
often on CVS server, the CVSTMP point somewhere else than the default 
(because the default, /tmp, is too small), again you need to make sure that 
that directory exists, and that there is enough space in there.

The other thing is, if you use extended ACL, then you need to translate 
those between the Solaris ones and the Linux ones.

> 2- Because it's a migration by way of untarring, do I still need to execute
> "cvs -d /repo/path init" since the existing repo already contains the
> CVSROOT directory?

No, when you untar, it will create the CVSROOT directories, which is what 
"cvs init" does.


> 3- Also, I would like to get rid of some old projects in the repository
> before I migrate it, we don't need the history and don't need to save them,
> so could I just log into the old server as Admin and do an rm or mv command
> (carefully of course) w/o trashing or corrupting the repository?

Are those modules, or repositories ?
If they are repositories, then yes it is easy to delete (mv), if they are 
modules, then it is also easy, but it means that your log file will be wrong 
which might be an issue if, for example, you transfer to another SCM later.

In either case, disk space is cheap, personally I would archive rather than 
delete.

--
Yves.
http://www.sollers.ca/blog/2008/