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

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Package: cvs; Maintainer for cvs is Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>; Source for cvs is src:cvs (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Greg Kochanski <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:48:06 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: upstream

Found in versions 1:1.12.9-9, cvs/1:1.12.13-5

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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



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