From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 5:51:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6450737BB4F for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 05:51:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp5.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.20]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA16901 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:50:20 +0200 (GMT) Received: (qmail 5641 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Mar 2000 13:26:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:26:38 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Kiril Mitev Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: source revisions, cvsups, etc... Message-ID: <20000322152638.C4205@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <200003212136.VAA97704@loki.ideaglobal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003212136.VAA97704@loki.ideaglobal.com>; from kiril@ideaglobal.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:36:33PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:36:33PM +0000, Kiril Mitev wrote: > Dear All > > I DO apologise for the lame question... sorry :)) > > Am I correct in my understanding that cvsup is a one-way system of ... > lets say "syncing files"? Well, CVSup is a nifty little thing that sits on top of CVS trees, and does what you describe ;) > If yes, can anyone suggest anything that will allow people to POST > updates to a source tree from a remote computer, without access to > such frivolities as nfs/shell accounts/etc. You can use CVS itself. I know that it has a network mode of operation, which allows one (when working locally) to say things like: % mkdir /tmp/local % cd /tmp/local % setenv CVSROOT /home/cvs % cvs checkout src-all and when working remotely: % mkdir /tmp/remote % cd /tmp/remote % setenv CVSROOT ":pserver:anoncvs@cvs.host.name:/home/ncvs" % cvs login Password: [your pass here] % cvs checkout src-all I think that CVS uses an unencrypted protocol to communicate password and other sensitive data over it's :pserver: connections though. This might be, err, sub-optimal in some cases. A lot of people prefer using ssh to connect to the remote server and work locally. This requires that you use 'accounts' and you stated you do not like it, but I can't think right now of any other way of working remotely with CVS servers. Perhaps ssh-tunneling of CVS connections? - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message