Cryptic CVS Setup

The following is a little cryptic, being notes I made for myself as I was settiing up a server.

On CVS server machine

• Create cvs user in /etc/passwd; home dir will be CVS repository.
• Also create the directory if not done above. adduser cvs will do all the above, except the password. There should be an invalid password; nobody will use this ID.
• cd to CVS repository.
• Use cvs init command to make the repository.
• Create cvs password/user mapping file. Run the cvspwd program in the CVSROOT directory of the repository! Map all users to real user cvs (though I think this unnecessary if server runs as user cvs)
• cvspwd was from GlassFish Networking, but the address no longer works
• Add cvspserver line to /etc/services, set as

  cvspserver 2401/tcp
  

• The CVS server needs to be enabled, and the steps differ based upon whether your system uses ineted or xinetd.

  Inetd Systems

  Add cvspserver line to /etc/inetd.conf. I use the line

  cvspserver  stream  tcp  nowait  cvs  /usr/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/home/cvs pserver
  

  Xinetd Systems

  For xinetd users, copy the following into the file /etc/xinted.d/cvspserver:

  # default: on
  # description: The cvs server allows access to a CVS repository.
  service cvspserver
  {
          enable  = yes
          socket_type     = stream
          wait            = no
          user            = cvs
          server          = /usr/bin/cvs
          server_args     = --allow-root=/home/cvs pserver
          log_on_failure  += USERID
          only_from = 192.168.0.0/20
  }
  

• Restart inetd or xinetd to use new facility.
• telnet <server machine> 2401 to verify server is working!

Server Repository Layout

• Create the top level directories on the server. Owner + permissions set too.
• Add entries for the top level directories in modules file
• To add further structure, check out a module,
• cd into that directory, add directories, files etc.
• Use cvs add to put those into the repository.
• On client side, create this directory layout.

All on the client side

• Create the directory in the CVS tree to which the source will be added.
• Find the virgin source, NOT in the above location.
• Use this to import the sources:

  cd <directory with source to add>
  cvs import -m "Import of mswordview v0.5.7" external/MSwordview/mswordview MS_WORD_VIEW WORD_VIEW_0_5_7
  

  where the last two are tags (strings, I suspect).

• Then go to CVS tree, and cvs update to get the source.