Hello mark.

14 Jun 03 20:07, you wrote to me:

 RT>> While everyone is busy talking about using CVS, I have just
 RT>> installed it on my Debian 3.0 system and I have a CVSROOT
 RT>> directory in /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT, but there does not seem to
 RT>> be a system wide Enviroment settting for this.

 ml> i installed cvs on my mandrake v7.1 system from the original rpms and
 ml> do not have a cvsroot (case insensitive) anywhere...

Well I installed cvs by the "apt-get install cvs" route for
debian, which is 
how Debian does it, put in the required CD-ROM's and then as is Debian's 
wont, did a certain amount of configuration, as the cvs has been 
"initialised"

To quote Linux Format April 2002



Creating the repository
When CVS is installed on the system, we can now create the CVS repository in 
which the code will reside that the developers chech in and out. The first 
thing to decide is where you want your repository to live. To setup /cvs I 
first created the directory with;

mkdir /cvs

The command needs to be issued as root, as it ceated a new root level 
directory. To create the repository I then issued;

cvs -d /cvs init




When the last has been issued, you end up with /cvs/CVSROOT/ and the file 
.cvspass in the /cvs directory.

in CVSROOT directory you have a whole bunch of files (cvs scripts?) and 
/Emptydir, which is empty.

The article then goes on to adding a user "cvs" ie.

adduser cvs, and then changing the ownership of /cvs to the user "cvs".

Which is all fine and dandy, but there is no central "thread" or
"theme" in 
all the documentation that I have here. So I am a little confused.

I have put together a nice little Linux system here, took a while, and I 
don't want to screw it up with a full steam ahead, and bugger the torpedo's 
attitude, if I can get thing going without screwing it up.

IE. I would rather not have to redo the system due to my no so logical 
learning curve. Too many things I am guessing at the moment. 

Also, I don't know what is already setup by the cvs*.deb package and what was 
not setup, and I currently don't know enough, in one coherent block to see 
what needs to be done.

Russell

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