[ale] OT cvs move

[Jim Lynch]

All good points.  Fortunately, the system I'm moving to has another
cvsroot on it so most of those problems have been addressed.

Thanks,
Jim.

Ronald Chmara wrote:
> 
> On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 09:47  AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > I'd like to take a cvs archive and move it to another system, lock
> > stock
> > and barrel.  Can that be done?  What do I have to look out for?  Can I
> > just tar it up and move it or do I need to initialize things first?
> 
> OT without politics, platform wars, or trolls? Say it ain't so!
> 
> If you're talking about either a server's CVSROOT area, or even a
> client, you'll be happy to know that CVS is typical *nix... it's all
> files.
> 
> Move the files and you'll usually be fine, I wind up doing this about
> once a year. Some "other" stuff to look out for:
> 1. (server) Do you invoke any avail/loginfo/commitinfo/etc. external
> binaries (outside of the cvs file tree), that must also be moved?
> 2. (server) Do you have any cvsweb (or similar) ways of interacting
> with the repository, that must also be set up on the new server?
> 3. (server) If access to the old server was via CVS over SSH, will you
> also need to move homedir's and authorized_keys(2)?
> 4. (server) Similar to above, do you need /etc/passwd and friends?
> 5. (server) If you have external binaries, do they need any temp dirs
> created and chmod'ed?
> 6. (client) Does the client need any environment settings changed, for
> cvsroot and similar?
> 
> HTH,
> -Bop
> Ronald Chmara
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