CVS question

[Carlo Wood]

| The huge size of egcs-1.0.3a-1.1.diff gave me the idea to try and use the
| egcs CVS server for getting a patch against the latest snapshot. The cvsweb
| interface apparently only supports generating diffs between two revisions of
| a single file. So I examined the histories for tags to use, and used the
| following command:
| 
|   cvs rdiff -r egcs_ss_19980824 -r egcs_1_1_prerelease egcs
| 
| (after logging in, obviously). Unfortunately, I got the response
| 
|   cvs [server aborted]: "patch" requires write access to the repository
| 
| Can someone enlighten me as to why this needs _write_ access? Am I simply
| doing something stupid, or is the rdiff command not supported?
| 
| Bernd

This is a bug in CVS.

I wrote a patch for this, which is included in cvs-1.10.
So the best thing to do is to upgrade cvs (on cygnus) to 1.10.

Anyone at cygnus who can upgrade cvs please?
You can get it from:

http://download.cyclic.com/pub/cvs-1.10/cvs-1.10.tar.gz

-- 
 Carlo Wood  <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>