FS#12636 - [cvs] doesn't work

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Thursday, 01 January 2009, 19:51 GMT
Last edited by Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa) - Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 15:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The cvs-1.11.23-3-i686 'cvs' command doesn't work (cvs-1.11.23-2-i686 is all right).
When trying to run like 'cvs update', I get this:
cvs [update aborted]: cannot exec rsh: No such file or directory
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

Installing rsh (netkit-rsh) eliminates the above error, but it doesn't work either (it ends by timeout).
Downgrading to older version of the package makes things OK.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
cvs-1.11.23-3-i686 NOT OK
cvs-1.11.23-2-i686 OK
* config and/or log files etc.
I don't know of any config files...


Steps to reproduce:
Install cvs-1.11.23-3-i686 and try to do something with your repo that requires connection to the server.
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Closed by  Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa)
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 15:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 01 January 2009, 22:48 GMT
cvs update works for me on i686
1.11.23-3
Comment by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 17:46 GMT
I have found out that it works for me as well if I work with a repository that has been checked out with the new CVS. However, I have a repository where the new CVS package fails.
I haven't done any hacking on that CVS setup there, so I don't know what might go wrong.
I attach the contents of the CVS subdirectory...
Comment by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 17:47 GMT
The promised files:
Comment by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 17:49 GMT
Sorry, I have clicked twice on the wrong button :-) Are you interested in some CVSROOT files?
   Entries (0.5 KiB)
   Repository (0 KiB)
   Root (0.1 KiB)
Comment by Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 02:09 GMT
Hi,

Is it working now ? Can we close this bug ?
Comment by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 16:44 GMT
Since noone else has reported any problems with that, I guess that it is OK to close it.
However, I am not able to confirm anything since I have found a workaround (the project switched to SVN :-)
Comment by John Wilkinson (jowilkin) - Tuesday, 03 March 2009, 13:11 GMT
I had this same problem. Downgrading to cvs-1.11.23-2-i686 as suggested in the bug report fixed it for me.
Comment by Matthew Hague (yourealwaysbe) - Monday, 13 April 2009, 09:28 GMT

I had a similar problem. Downgrading didn't seem to work, but it turned out, in my case, that my CVS server wasn't happy with rsh. Using,

export CVS_RSH=ssh

got things running.

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