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Subject:  Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
Date:  Wed, 10 May 2006 15:43:33 -0600
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Nicholas Thayer wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

I installed the latest cygwin snapshot 
(cygwin1-20060427.dll), and am using the same CVS package 
(1.11.17-1), and the directory creation problems have gone 
away.  So, the next stable release of the cygwin1.dll should 
solve this problem for other users unwilling to upgrade to a 
snapshot binary.

Thanks for everyone's help,
Nicholas


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