Re: Savannah web interface to CVS repositories is down

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> FYI, Savannah's web interface to CVS repositories (viewvc) is currently
> responding to all requests with a 429 Too Many Requests error code.
> Since the 'gnustandards' repo is still using CVS, this has broken
> Autoconf's script for updating its local copy of standards.texi, which
> goes through the web interface in order to avoid making people install
> the 'cvs' program, which they might not have any other use for anymore.
>
> I was able to update standards.texi by hand, and the script needs to be
> run only once per release of Autoconf, so a fix is not urgent.

The script can replace cvs with rsync and rcs,

rsync -av \
  rsync://cvs.sv.gnu.org/sources/gnustandards/gnustandards/standards.texi,v . \
&& co standards.texi,v