'Twould be wonderful. Unfortunately, currently, cvs in its default form
requires remote shelling capabilities into the computer. One would have to
be very confortable with the security risks in 'just making cvs available'
over the net.
> The netbsd people have a CVS tree for the source of all system files.
> I don't know why we can't do the same thing.
Someone please correct me if I don't have my facts straight, but as I understand
it, it is OpenBSD, not NetBSD that has the 'anoncvs' tree. Just browse to
http://www.openbsd.org/ and follow the 'how we help developers and users' and
read more details, but basically, they have a neat 'secure' environment setup
in which one CAN retrieve files in a read-only fashon. I personally know one
of the site maintaiers who worked for several days setting up anoncvs and he
was telling me that it wasn't a breeze. Something along the lines of OpenBSD's
'edge' on other free OS's, from what I gather.
Then, there is NetBSD's 'supkit' which, as I understand it, allows one to type
'sup' on the client computer, and then through supserver, running on the server
machine, determines which files are not uptodate, and then retrieves them,
thus bringing one's source uptodate.
Again, what I think I know. Please someone correct me if I am wrong.
-- Todd Fries...tfries@umr.edu http://www.cs.umr.edu/~tfries