Re: Bug in CVS

[Larry Jones]

Rafael Jesus Alcantara Perez writes:
> 
> I have found an erroneous (I think) behavior in CVS. In the version 1.10.8 
> (cvs-1.10.8-8.i386.rpm from Red Hat Linux 7.0), if you pass to the CVS 
> server, the parameter '-f', then it should "... not read the cvs startup file 
> (~/.cvsrc)", but in the new version, 1.11.1p1 (cvs-1.11.1p1-3.i386.rpm), the 
> server tries to mount CVS user home directory to read something. In my case, 
> that directory is mounted from my work-station using NFS, so when my 
> work-station is off, then the CVS client complains saying:
> 
> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/misc/remote_home/rafa): No such file or 
> directory

What connection method are you using: pserver or ext?  CVS 1.11.1p1
should work exactly like 1.10.8 in this reguard.  Make sure you have the
-f in the right place.

-Larry Jones

If I was being raised in a better environment, I wouldn't
do things like that. -- Calvin