> > Why couldn't one of these people make his/her ... CVS
> > tree available over the net?
>
> '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.
>
Basically mounting the holy CVS tree over NFS read-only should solve
all the write problems. I think BSD people are just getting a current
"export" instead of a "real checkout". Having an "export" is enough
to have the latest sources, but you need to import them before you
can change them via CVS.
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