From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 15:04:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0937216A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:04:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AD143D1F for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:04:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i5NF40eq093145; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:04:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:03:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: login@istop.com Message-ID: <20040623150359.GA64305@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040622210540.8385A17C133@smtp.istop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040622210540.8385A17C133@smtp.istop.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating cvs repositories from Linux to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:04:01 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 22), login@istop.com said: > I got two hosts with the following specs: > > The oldhost is running Mandrake Linux 8.2 version 2.4.18-6mdk > and newhost is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. > > The cvs versions on these hosts are: > > oldhost# cvs -v > Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1p1 (client/server) > > newhost# /usr/local/sbin/cvsd --version > cvsd 1.0.0 5.2.1 came with cvs 1.11.5, I think. cvsd should be transparent to the client and server. > Now only concern is how to migrate or move the cvs repositories from > the oldhost [Linux] to newhost [FreeBSD]. > > The steps, I think, may be involve to accomplish this task are: > > 1. make identical user accounts on newhost as oldhost ones > 2. announce to users and stop the cvs server on oldhost > 3. on oldhost, backup the CVSROOT > 4. on newhost, restore the CVSROOT > 5. start the cvs server on newhost > 6. point the users to start using newhost for checkin/checkout stuff > > Is this a valid sequence? Am I missing any point? Would there be > inconsitency as the cvs version are not same on these hosts? That should work fine. CVS has always used the same repository format so version differences shouldn't matter. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com