David Berry wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
>>> I did a yum update yesterday, cvs was one of the updates,
>>> cvs-1.11.2-25.legacy.i386.
>>>
>>> I do not know if Duncan had installed his own copy of CVS, but if he did
>>> then he didn't remove the original first so that yum would not try to
>>> update it every time!
>>>
>>> Steve.
>> I recall that Duncan did update the CVS server software at sometime. There
>> were some issues with client compatibility (various warnings we were
>> seeing around the place, I forget exactly what). Since we're now running
>> an old server again the simplest solution would seem to be to remove the
>> offending line and see what happens.
>
> There could be other compatibily issues since we have been using a newer
> version for 19 months. Why not take the other approach of upgrading CVS to
> a more recent version?
>
> In fact, why did a yum update install such an old version?
>
> David
Because that is the version that is part of RH9.
I have tried to install a 1.1.2 version from a src RPM but they are
incompatible with RH9. It would have to be a tar source installation (if
it builds).
Steve.
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