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>Alternatives to the Pserver</TITLE
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>4. Alternatives to the Pserver</H1
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>4.1. Access for developers</H2
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> Pserver is not a very good method to implement for your fellow developers
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to access the repository. You can use CVS's SSH and ext method.
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Simply add the user to the server's list of users, add the user
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to the file WRITERS, and then they can do the following:
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> <TT
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>$</TT
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> export CVS_RSH='/usr/bin/ssh'
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>$</TT
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> cvs -d :ext:username@server.hostname:/cvs/root login
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> This is a much more secure way for developers to access the
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repository.
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>4.2. Anonymous CVS access by http</H2
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> There is another way to allow anonymous access to CVS. If there
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is an http server and Python installed on the server, you can use
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a set of Python CGI scripts called <A
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HREF="http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net"
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TARGET="_top"
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> viewcvs</A
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>, which allow people to view the CVS repository over
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the web, and can generate tarballs for users to download.
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</P
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> There is also a set of Perl CGI scripts that do the same thing
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called <A
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HREF="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> cvsweb</A
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>, but Viewcvs is more mature and is preferred (at
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least by me).
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>4.3. CVSGrab</H2
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> <A
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HREF="http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net"
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TARGET="_top"
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>CVSGrab</A
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> is an
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end-user tool for downloading the CVS repository by a ViewCVS
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interface. It is very useful when you are behind a corporate
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firewall that blocks the Pserver, as you can just grab the repository
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over standard HTTP. The only problem is if it doesn't have a
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ViewCVS interface, but most free software
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repositories are now on the web, and the few that still use
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cvsweb seem to be switching over to ViewCVS.
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</P
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> CVSGrab is written in Java, which may at first be a turn-off to
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some people (it is to me), but it seems completely compilable
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using <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>GCJ</SPAN
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>, the Java front-end to GCC.
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</P
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> CVSGrab is a tool that goes hand-in-hand with
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ViewCVS. It is an end-user tool, not one that you as a system
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administrator or repository administrator would set up and configure.
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