Stephen Rankin wrote:
> 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.
OK now updated to cvs-1.12.13, which is the latest.
There is a src RPM for cvs-1.12.13 here,
ftp://ftp2.starlink.ac.uk/cvs
it should be generic and build on most RPM based Linux distributions.
The binaries are for RH9.
Try a cvs checkout/update now.
Steve.
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