[ILUG] This Sourceforge thingee and CVS ??

[Dave Airlie]

pserver isn't the way to go...

you must use CVS over ssh..

setenv CVS_RSH ssh
cvs -d glengray at cvs.lcdproc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc commit

Dave.


On 28 Sep 2001, Glen Gray wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been submitting patches to a sourceforge project for a couple of
> months and I was asked to get a sourceforge account so I could be setup
> with developer access so I can commit my own changes. I've never used
> sourceforge before and I'm having trouble getting the commits to work
> and can't see anywhere to tell me what I'm doing wrong. So some pointers
> would be much appreciated.
>
> Firstly the source tree on my local drive was checked out of sourceforge
> using the following commands.
>
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.lcdproc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc
> login
> cvs -z3
> -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.lcdproc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc co
> lcdproc
>
> I've been updating and make patchs against this source tree. Now I've
> got a user account at sourceforge and apparently I've been given
> developer status to the project. I try and commit with the following
> commands.
>
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> cvs -d:pserver:glengray at cvs.lcdproc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc
> login
> cvs -d:pserver:glengray at cvs.lcdproc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc
> commit
>
> My commits still claim that the server is aborting with this error
> message.
>
> cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository
> cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvsTz6zoC
>
> I've heard that pserver might not work for developer access but I'm not
> sure what else to do.
>
> Suggestions welcome :-)
>
>
>

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