Re: maybe a bug in VMS cvs-client ?

[Matthew Riechers]

Martin Eismann wrote:
> 
> Hi @ all!
> 
> > Martin Eismann wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello !
> > >
> > > After importing my Pascal-sources from OpenVMS to a remote repositoy (on
> > > SuSE Linux 7.0; Kernel
> > > 2.4.5; CVS 1.11.1) i have troubles in "cvs checkout" these source on
> > > OpenVMS 7.3 (cvs-client version 1.9.27; with full system privileges).
> >
> > Upgrade the client. Pre-1.10.? isn't Y2K-compliant, and there have been
> > alot of bugfixes too! :)
> >
> >From where can I download the latest (pre-1.10) client for VMS? I'd only
> found version 1.9.27 as
> latest?

Sorry, you misunderstood me. I meant everything before 1.10.7 is not Y2K
compliant. You still want the newest version (1.11.1p1) Have you tried
compiling from source? I think the reason the VMS binary is only at
1.9.27 is that no one has contributed a newer one. If you can get it to
build, you should donate a copy to cvshome.org :)

But that isn't really your problem...

> On linux-side i'd done:
>   cvs -d :local:/var/cvsroot init (runs without errors)
> 
> On VMS-side i'm running:
>   define /job CVSROOT ":pserver:address@hidden:/var/cvsroot"
>   cvs login (without any errors)
>   cvs import -m "start-source" lzo_source lzo start (which runs without
> errors)
>   cvs checkout lzo_source

Are you doing a checkout in the same directory you imported from? You
have to go to a new area to get your sandbox. That would explain why the
linux client worked and the VMS client didn't. See
<http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_3.html#SEC40> for details.

-Matt