[Savannah-hackers] [support #103379] savannah coreutils repository stopped working Sept. 6

[Sylvain Beucler]

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[support #103379] Latest Modifications:

Changes by: 
                Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
'Date: 
                Wed 09/29/2004 at 13:06 (Europe/Paris)

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The cvs repository is updating fine now.
I have no clue why it stopped working in the first place, which is pretty 
annoying. I suppose the sync process was ran once as root, messing up 
ownerships.

I never saw of synchronization for the website, however. Can you tell about 
this?






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[support #103379] Full Item Snapshot:

URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=103379>
Project: Savannah Administration
Submitted by: Paul Eggert
On: Sun 09/19/2004 at 03:50

Category:  Savannah website
Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  7 - Major
Resolution:  Postponed
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  Beuc
Originator Email:  address@hidden
Status:  Open


Summary:  savannah coreutils repository stopped working Sept. 6

Original Submission:  The coreutils project is a bit unusual: its CVS files are 
maintained offsite, and savannah polls it once an hour.  This procedure stopped 
working 12 days ago; the last update of Savannah coreutils that I can find is 
dated Mon Sep 6 07:49:21 2004 UTC. Savannah is still polling the offsite 
location every  hour (12 minutes after the hour), and is obtaining the updates, 
but these updates are not being published via Savannah's web interface. Also, 
CVS readonly access doesn't work, e.g.:

$ cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/coreutils co coreutils
Invalid CVSROOT (2)
cvs checkout: invalid data from cvs server


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Date: Wed 09/29/2004 at 13:06       By: Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
The cvs repository is updating fine now.
I have no clue why it stopped working in the first place, which is pretty 
annoying. I suppose the sync process was ran once as root, messing up 
ownerships.

I never saw of synchronization for the website, however. Can you tell about 
this?

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Date: Tue 09/28/2004 at 04:12       By: Paul Eggert <eggert>
The Savannah coreutils repository is still frozen (i.e., not being updated 
automatically), and is becoming more and more out of date. This is becoming a 
support burden, as we can no longer refer users to the repository when talking 
about changes since the Savannah freezup began three weeks ago. Can you please 
increase the priority of fixing this? Thanks.

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Date: Wed 09/22/2004 at 14:34       By: Elfyn McBratney <beu>
Apologies, I'm pretty sure I broke this.  I'll fix it now.  

Btw, note that write access is not permitted for remote repositories (such as 
automake, coreutils, gcc and others).  In fact developer cvs should not even be 
enabled for coreutils, but I guess that's anoth bug.  Sigh...

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Date: Wed 09/22/2004 at 05:48       By: Paul Eggert <eggert>
Unfortunately the problem is not yet fixed.
The Savannah website and CVS repository are
still not being updated by the automated
procedure that I mentioned.

The only thing that has been fixed is remote
readonly CVS access (which was support #103358).

What has not been fixed is that the Savannah
CVS repository is still not being updated
automatically, as it should be.  Savannah is
still polling the master copy of the CVS
files via rsync every hour, but Savannah is
apparently not making the updated CVS files
accessible to its CVS server or web server.


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Date: Tue 09/21/2004 at 23:11       By: Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
It is temporarily fixed. The owner were not well set. I'll check this issue in 
detail as soon as I have more time. I let the item open for now.




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