Debian Bug report logs - #291520
cvs: should check that files exist before using network

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Greg Kochanski <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: cvs: Cvs add should check that files exist before using network

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:38:01 +0000

Package: cvs
Version: 1:1.12.9-9
Severity: wishlist


Cvs add should check
to make sure the necessary files are available
before it goes out onto the network to
contact the server.

It's a bit annoying to accidentally type the
wrong file name to CVS, type a password,
and only *then* be told that the file
doesn't exist.

I find it happens relatively often with CVS add
of a directory, because I can never remember
whether I need to mkdir before cvs or not.

Here's an example:

mint:0501course$ cvs add 02_2005
[email protected]'s password: <long secret passphrAse>
cvs server: nothing known about 02_2005
mint:0501course$ mkdir 02_2005
mint:0501course$ cvs add 02_2005
[email protected]'s password: <long secret passphrAse>
Directory /home/gpk/CVSROOT/0501course/02_2005 added to the repository
mint:0501course$


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cvs depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.11    Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-22      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-3    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  cvs/rotatekeep: 7
* cvs/badrepositories: create
  cvs/pserver_warning:
  cvs/rotatekeep_nondefault: no
  cvs/rotate_individual: true
  cvs/pserver_repos_individual: true
  cvs/pserver_setspawnlimit: false
  cvs/rotatekeep_individual: 7
  cvs/pserver_repos: all
* cvs/pserver: false
  cvs/cvs_conf_is_dead:
* cvs/repositories: /export/big/CVSROOT
  cvs/pserver_spawnlimit: 400
  cvs/rotatehistory: no

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ambrose Li <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: cvs: This should not be always done

Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:37:07 -0500

Package: cvs
Version: 1:1.12.13-5
Followup-For: Bug #291520


Please see also bug 292202, which I reported almost 2 years ago.
It is sometimes WRONG to check for existence of the file before
contacting the server.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-ow1
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5)

Versions of packages cvs depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.9       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-runtime               0.79-4      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                     0.79-4      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  zlib1g                       1:1.2.3-13  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cvs recommends:
ii  info [info-browser]         4.8.dfsg.1-3 Standalone GNU Info documentation 
ii  konqueror [info-browser]    4:3.5.3-2    KDE's advanced file manager, web b
ii  netbase                     4.25         Basic TCP/IP networking system

-- debconf information:
  cvs/rotatekeep: 7
* cvs/badrepositories: ignore
  cvs/rotatekeep_nondefault: no
  cvs/rotate_individual: true
  cvs/pserver_repos_individual: true
  cvs/pserver_setspawnlimit: false
  cvs/rotatekeep_individual: 7
  cvs/pserver_repos: all
* cvs/pserver: false
  cvs/cvs_conf_is_dead:
* cvs/repositories: /var/lib/cvs
  cvs/pserver_spawnlimit: 400
  cvs/rotatehistory: no

Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: cvs: should check that files exist before using network

Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:12:05 +0000 (UTC)

Hi,

may I suggest you use ssh-agent to avoid entering the password?
If that’s enough, please do close this bugreport.

Other than that, I don’t know if it’s possible… you want to
bring this up with upstream.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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