From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Derek R. Price" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs Subject: Re: Tip: restoring your CVS access to savannah Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:31:31 -0500 Message-ID: <43C2AC03.5070904@ximbiot.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136839736 28040 80.91.229.2 (9 Jan 2006 20:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-cvs@gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 21:48:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ew3wd-0007Er-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:48:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ew3yZ-0001kQ-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:50:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ew1rX-0000jj-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:35:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ew1qy-0000QQ-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ew1pf-00087j-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:33:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.17.117.4] (helo=mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ew1ry-0007VY-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 17692 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2006 18:31:24 -0000 Original-Received: from d14-69-83-59.try.wideopenwest.com (HELO [10.254.0.60]) (ximbiot@[69.14.59.83]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jan 2006 18:31:24 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:19:59 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:48880 gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs:4293 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >>The scripts in question are scripts used by the CVS server on >>savannah, the page that you cited explains that. The savannah >>maintainers said simply to disregard these messages, as they will go >>away when they (the maintainers) fix those scripts at some later date. >> >> > >Yes, the real problem is that the CVS authors messed up this message >pretty badly: it should be sent to the cvs-admin, not the cvs-user. Or (in >case sending it to the cvs-admin is not possible) it should at least use >a different wording that takes into account the fact that it's talking to >a cvs-user and not a cvs-admin. >I can't help but be reminded of the proverbial "unsubscribe" message sent to >thousands of helpless mailing-list members. > > That particular message was my fault, and perhaps I could have worded it better, but it was intentionally noisy to encourage admins to upgrade their scripts to be compatible with the new and more reliable trigger API. Perhaps I shouldn't have been quite so draconian, but the fix is easy: the admins just need to tweak their scripts to handle the new loginfo argument format (info about a single file is sent as three arguments rather than as a single comma delimited argument and filenames with spaces are now quoted properly), then flip a few switches in their config files. If the loginfo script isn't getting revision numbers anyhow but only filenames (and, IIRC, this is the case with the savannah loginfo, or at least was several months ago when I looked) then the config file switches may only need to be thrown (no script changes would be necessary). Derek -- Derek R. Price CVS Solutions Architect Get CVS support at Ximbiot ! v: +1 717.579.6168 f: +1 248.879.8695