Re: [Savannah-hackers] Problems with CVS on subversions.gnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:25:12PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> 
> I have noticed a few problems with CVS lately.
> 
> I use pcl-cvs from emacs, but the problems are cvs related.
> 
> 
> 1) M-x cvs-examine fails:
> 
> I have this in ~/.cvsrc:
> 
>   cvs -z6
> 
> When I run cvs-examine on emacs repository, I get this result:
> 
> Repository : address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs
> Module     : emacs
> Working dir: ~/gnu/emacs/
> 
> Message: cvs [update aborted]: reading from server: Input/output error
> Message: cvs update: inflate: unknown compression method
> 
> The command run is:
> 
> -- Running cvs -f -z6 -n update -d -P ...
> 
> 
> 
> Running M-x cvs-update in the same directory works ok;
> the command run is
> 
> -- Running cvs -f -z6 update -d -P ...
> 
> 
> Maybe -z6 -n is interpreted as one argument like -z"6 -n" ??
> 
> 
> 
> 2) M-x cvs-examine complains about -l option:
> 
> If I remove that line from ~/.cvsrc (so it is empty), and runs
> cvs-examine, it completes, but this message is shown:
> 
> 
> In directory .:
> Message: cvs server: WARNING: global `-l' option ignored.
> 
> The command run is:
> 
> -- Running cvs -f -n update -d -P ...

Sorry for the delay.

Both problems comes from the fact we upgraded the CVS server. This
causes some backward compatibilities with older clients. Upgrading you
CVS client fixes the issue.

-- 
Sylvain