Short: CVS 1.11.2 - Concurrent Versions System Author: Various; ported by Olaf Barthel , Jens Langner Uploader: Jens Langner Type: util/gnu Replaces: util/gnu/cvs-1.11.1p1.lha CVS 1.11.2 Amiga port (22 July 2002) ==================================== Introduction ------------ This is a somewhat rough port of GNU CVS 1.11.2, a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. It handles multiple developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control various operations, and can work over a wide area network. The following tasks are not included; they can be done in conjunction with CVS but will tend to require some script-writing and software other than CVS: bug-tracking, build management (that is, make and make-like tools), and automated testing. (Quoted from the CVS documentation.) I call this a 'rough port' since it is not as polished as, say Heinz Wrobel's excellent 'RCS' port. It does what it needs to do, but a few features are sorely lacking, such as support for Amiga file protection bits. On the other hand, however, you get everything, and perhaps more, you got with the previous Amiga ports of CVS: this port does not require 'ixemul.library' to work and it does not require an RCS installation because it is completely self contained. The port would also probably win a price as the largest 'pure' executable; it can be made resident. What's in this package? ----------------------- This distribution contains the Amiga port, the Amiga specific source code and most of the original GNU CVS 1.11.2 distribution. 'Most' in this case means that only the original source code has been omitted in order to keep the distribution archive small; the documentation and support files are all provided. The original source code can be downloaded from the Internet at 'ftp://ftp.cvshome.org/pub/cvs-1.11.2/cvs-1.11.2.tar.gz'. I have added two more files which are converted from the original Unix man pages, namely 'cvs.1.man' and 'cvs.5.man' whose sources can be found in the 'cvs-1.11.2/man' directory. Features of this Amiga CVS port ------------------------------- + full cvs client (checkin/checkout) + TCP/IP support (for connecting to servers via TCP/IP) + SSH support for secure connections + no ixemul.library needed. + no RCS installation needed. + could be made resident (less memory+faster) + processor optimized versions [020/030/040/060] Not implemented features yet ---------------------------- - no server support (you can`t use a Amiga as a cvs server) - no file protection bits support (to a lack of AmigaOS) Please read the included README.AMIGA for a full documentation ! Contacting the authors ---------------------- If you have any further questions on this port, feel free to contact us: Olaf Barthel Brabeckstr. 35 D-30559 Hannover Federal Republic of Germany olsen@sourcery.han.de Jens Langner Lannerstrasse 1 D-01219 Dresden Federal Republic of Germany Jens.Langner@light-speed.de History ------- 2002-07-22 Jens Langner * fixed bug in recv_all() function of the ssh implementation where we didn`t check for a returned zero value, that caused an infinite loop under certain situations. * fixed problem where after the update to 1.11.2, the cvs port always reported an input/output error when using the :server: method. 2002-07-14 Olaf Barthel * found bug in the OpenSSL Blowfish-chiffre routines that caused the cvs SSH routines to fail somehow. cvs will now check for those buggy chiffre packets and throw and error message accordingly. 2002-05-08 Jens Langner * updated the original source tree to latest 1.11.2 version of cvs and adapted the port to that new version. Somehow after the update cvs throws an input/output error each time it is used with ssh. 2002-03-05 Olaf Barthel * In __tzset() the time zone sign was set the wrong way round, i.e. "+" instead of "-" and the other way round. Fixed. * Cleaned up the source code a little, taking special care of the tab size, pointers, variable names, typos and the like. * Clarified the use of certain routines which otherwise would look very esotheric... * Now shows a proper error message when a :server: connection cannot be established. Also reworked the other error messages produced by the amiga_rcmd() routine. * Directories are now always reported as being available for reading, writing and searching by the owner. * Files are now always reported as readable by the owner. * No longer allocates 1424 bytes from the local stack when starting a remote cvs server. * "cvs import .." now works as expected for remote repositories; previous versions would try to access the repository locally and get into trouble if it didn't exist. This probably counts as an actual CVS bug which was particularly noticeable on the Amiga. ... more history in the included ChangeLog file.