Re: Re: gCvs GTK2

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:24:25 +0100
Richard Wirth <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Huh? Putty/Pagent are Windows tools. So AFAIK there is no Linux port.

The source snapshot of CvsNT I have (2.0.58a) has putty in it, and the
README claims it will compile for Unix.  But see my other message, I
discovered a way around this problem.

> Doing initial checkout via gCvs is not really tested :-(

I've opened a bug for this.

> I'm using cvsnt on my unix flavored systems. It is necessary to have
> X11-Ask-Pass installed to get ssh working with gCvs, but on Linux
> this should be installed already. This brings up the message box for
> entering your password (if you didn't already install your public key
> to sourceforge).

Is askpass an alternative to ssh-agent?  I'll give it a try.

> 
> GR>   Another bug: I tried on the Ports page of Preferences to select
> GR>   the
> GR> checkbox for alternate rsh name, it wouldn't let me check this
> GR> until I had checked For rcmd at the top.
> 
> That's not a bug, i think. rsh is only useful if you use rcmd. But
> that's not the way accessing sf.net.

Others seem to think so, see bug 1002261 ;-)

-- 
Guy Rouillier


 
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