David Berry wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Eduardo Unda-Sanzana wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting this message when trying to update from CVS:
>>>
>>> cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.starlink.ac.uk: cvs
>>> pserver: /cvs/CVSROOT/config: unrecognized keyword 'UseNewInfoFmtStrings'
>>>
>> I get the same error but (using :ext: ssh) the cvs update does complete.
>
> At http://gforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2784&forum_id=6&group_id=1
> it says that UseNewFmtStrings is only recognised by CVS >= 1.12. But if I
> log onto the cvs server and do
>
> [dsb@saturn CVSROOT]$ cvs -v
>
> I get
>
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
>
> which is odd...
>
> Looking at the history of the /cvs/CVSROOT/config file, the most recent
> entry was by Duncan 19 months ago, with the comment "Modified Config to
> add in UseNewFmtStrings=yes again". So that suggests that we had a version
> of CVS >= 1.12 at the time (since cvs has been working OK until recently),
> but that somehow the version has recently dropped back to 1.11.2.
>
>
>
> Has a different version of cvs been installed on saturn recently?
>
> David
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.
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