CVS is the Concurrent Versions System. This is a version control system useful for projects using a central repository to hold files and then track all changes made to those files. These instructions install the client used to manipulate the repository, creation of a repository is covered at Running a CVS Server.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.22/cvs-1.11.22.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.22/cvs-1.11.22.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f24043a640509aff1aa28871dd345762
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 32.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional ~20 SBU to run the test suite)
Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/6.3/cvs-1.11.22-zlib-1.patch
GDBM-1.8.3, Tcsh-6.15.00, OpenSSH-4.7p1, krb4, MIT Kerberos V5-1.6 or Heimdal-1.1 (for the GSSAPI libraries), AFPL Ghostscript-8.53 or ESP Ghostscript-8.15.4, and an MTA (that provides a sendmail command)
CVS will invoke a default text
editor to create a commit message if the -m "Commit message" parameter was not
used when changes are committed to a respository. CVS looks for the following text editors, in
the order shown below, during configuration to determine the
default. This default can always be overridden by the CVSEDITOR or EDITOR
environment variables and can be specified directly by passing the
--with-editor=
parameter to the configure script.
<desired text editor>
Pine-4.64 (for Pico)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cvs
By default CVS is statically linked against the Zlib library included in its source tree. This makes it exposed to possible security vulnerabilities in that library. If you want to modify CVS to use the system shared Zlib library, apply the following patch:
patch -Np1 -i ../cvs-1.11.22-zlib-1.patch
Install CVS by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
If you have teTeX-3.0 installed and wish to create DVI, Postscript, HTML or text docs from the documentation source files, issue the following command:
make -C doc html txt dvi ps
To test the results, issue: make
check. This will take quite a while. If you don't
have rsh configured
for access to the host you are building on (or you didn't pass the
--with-rsh= parameter to the
configure script,
some tests may fail. If you passed the --with-rsh=ssh parameter to enable ssh as the default remote shell
program, you'll need to issue the following command so that the
tests will complete without any failures:
sed -e 's/rsh};/ssh};/' \
-e 's/g=rw,o=r$/g=r,o=r/' \
-i src/sanity.sh
Now, as the root user:
make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.22 && install -v -m644 FAQ README /usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.22 && install -v -m644 doc/*.pdf /usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.22
If you created any additional documentation, install it by issuing
the following commands as the root
user:
install -v -m644 doc/*.{ps,dvi,txt} /usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.22 &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.22/html/cvs{,client} &&
install -v -m644 doc/cvs.html/* \
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.22/html/cvs &&
install -v -m644 doc/cvsclient.html/* \
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.22/html/cvsclient
~/.cvsrc is the main CVS configuration file. This file is used by
users to specify defaults for different cvs commands. For example, to
make all cvs diff
commands run with -u, a user would
add diff -u to their .cvsrc file.
~/.cvswrappers specifies wrappers
to be used in addition to those specified in the CVSROOT/cvswrappers file in the repository.
~/.cvspass contains passwords used
to complete logins to servers.
Last updated on 2007-04-04 14:42:53 -0500