Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:30:54 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to notify cvsup users? Message-ID: <20121121103054.GV47455@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20121120155905.GA17295@eeyore.local.dohd.org> References: <20121120155905.GA17295@eeyore.local.dohd.org>
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As Mark Huizer wrote: > Now that we want to get rid of cvsup and move those people to svn... > Is there a way to somehow notify our users who mostly never check cvsup > anyway of this? I doubt if they'd even notice their favorite cvsup > server being turned off. I remember I've seen readable reply messages in the output of CVSup when something goes wrong on the server side, so they are displayed in the logs. Couldn't there just be a dummy CVSup server set up that starts the initial handshake, and then replies with a failure message that contains a URL explaining how to migrate to something else? -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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