Re: Downgrade of CVS Server from 1.12.13 to 1.11.17

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Shetty <address@hidden> writes:

> We are currently using the CVS Server v1.12.13 on Fedora 3. We are also
> using the WANDisco for replication on Mutiple servers. As per the
> recommendation from WANDisco, we need to downgrade the CVS server to
> 1.11.17 (Stable Version).
> 
> I would like to know the effects of downgrading the server from
> v1.12.13 to v1.11.17. Do we need to consider any special cases while
> the downgrading? Will the repository structure gets affected due to the
> downgrading?

Note: I would strongly urge you to use the latest version of STABLE
which is cvs-1.11.22 rather than the older and buggier cvs-1.11.17.

> I would appreciate any help on this matter.

If you are using UseNewInfoFmtStrings=yes in your
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config file, you will need to remove that line and
modify your various commit scripts.

As to the structure of the repository, the ,v files will be fine.

You might notice that the 'cvs [r]log' commands will no longer report
the 'commitid: hex-string;' at the end of the 'date:' record, but this
should not pose any problems for you.

That is the only active change of which I am aware, other than the bugs
that have been fixed between the 1.11.17 and 1.11.22 releases.

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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