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Subject:  cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
Date:  Wed, 10 May 2006 11:41:10 -0600
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After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, 
findutils, cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and 
checkouts.

I am using the CVS pserver under cygwin to run an intranet 
CVS repository that networked computers can access.  Since 
this is an intranet environment, there are no security issues.

The implementation I am using is to have a CVSROOT/passwd 
file for login.  The pserver is started in the inetd.conf 
file as:

cvspserver  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /bin/cvs cvs -f 
--allow-root=/usr/
local/REPOSITORY pserver

After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, 
findutils, cygwin), the following error message is being 
displayed and the pserver is no longer usable:

$ cvs co test
cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/.
No such file or directory

The directory info after the cvs-{serv3172} is dynamic. 
Looking at the /tmp directory, this new directory does not 
exist.  This leads me to think that a mkdir -p flag needs to 
be used or the CVS pserver code needs to be changed to call 
'mkdir /tmp/cvs-{xxx}', which would be one level deep and 
the mkdir call would succeed.

The pserver worked fine for the following packages and versions:

cygwin - 1.5.18-1
coreutils - 5.3.0-9
findutils - 4.2.25-2

How do I resolve this issue in order to upgrade to the 
latest packages?  Until a solution can be found I can't 
upgrade these packages without breaking the cvs server, 
which is absolutely necessary that it run.

Please assist and thanks for the help,
Nicholas


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