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Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
- From: Nicholas Thayer <ndthayer at comcast dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:43:33 -0600
- Subject: Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
- References: <e3t8jn$v5e$1@sea.gmane.org>
Nicholas Thayer wrote:
After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils,
cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts.
I am using the CVS pserver under cygwin to run an intranet CVS
repository that networked computers can access. Since this is an
intranet environment, there are no security issues.
The implementation I am using is to have a CVSROOT/passwd file for
login. The pserver is started in the inetd.conf file as:
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /bin/cvs cvs -f
--allow-root=/usr/
local/REPOSITORY pserver
After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils,
cygwin), the following error message is being displayed and the pserver
is no longer usable:
$ cvs co test
cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/.
No such file or directory
The directory info after the cvs-{serv3172} is dynamic. Looking at the
/tmp directory, this new directory does not exist. This leads me to
think that a mkdir -p flag needs to be used or the CVS pserver code
needs to be changed to call 'mkdir /tmp/cvs-{xxx}', which would be one
level deep and the mkdir call would succeed.
The pserver worked fine for the following packages and versions:
cygwin - 1.5.18-1
coreutils - 5.3.0-9
findutils - 4.2.25-2
How do I resolve this issue in order to upgrade to the latest packages?
Until a solution can be found I can't upgrade these packages without
breaking the cvs server, which is absolutely necessary that it run.
Please assist and thanks for the help,
Nicholas
I installed the latest cygwin snapshot
(cygwin1-20060427.dll), and am using the same CVS package
(1.11.17-1), and the directory creation problems have gone
away. So, the next stable release of the cygwin1.dll should
solve this problem for other users unwilling to upgrade to a
snapshot binary.
Thanks for everyone's help,
Nicholas
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