Re: [viewvc-users] cvsdbadmin does not parse commits

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 12:31:14PM -0800, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> On 02/23/2011 07:55 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > Set up ViewVC 1.1.9 on a Debian Squeeze system successfully. However,
> > running cvsdbadmin produces "0 commits" for all the files. I have RCS
> > installed from the debian repo.
> > 
> > Also, if *use_rcsparse* is used then the commits are parsed correctly.
> > 
> > Is there something different in the RCS that debian uses?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Amit
> 
> This is certainly unexpected.  cvsdbadmin works as expected on my Ubuntu
> 10.10 system, which has the distribution's RCS 5.7 installed.  Now, in
> fairness, my CVS repositories (which only exist so that I can test ViewVC)
> were probably generated with older versions of CVS.  Maybe your repositories
> were created by more recent CVS versions which don't write the RCS ,v
> backing files the same way that ViewVC expects?  I dunno.
> 

Thanks for the response. I figured out the problem. It was a
misconfiguration of the viewvc.conf. I had enabled the *cvsnt* option
and had it pointing to */usr/bin/cvs*. Now, the server had GNU CVS
installed and not cvsnt. After disabling this option, viewvc
successfully used RCS to parse the log information.

> If you have a ,v file that contains innocuous, non-private information in
> it, I'd be more than happy to try to reproduce the problem you are seeing on
> my machine here and debug it.
> 

Right now, rlog parses most ,v files correctly. However, ",v" files that
have the *filename* directive with an underscore value do not get
parsed. For example:

1.3
date    2010.04.22.18.51.57;    author amit;    state Exp;
branches;
next    1.2;
deltatype       text;
kopt    kv;
permissions     666;
commitid        1de44bd09aa755be;
filename        APP_MAIN.C;

Removing the line that contains filename allows RCS to parse this file.
It seems as if the *filename* is a CVSNT specific syntax and is not
valid RCS.

Thanks,
Amit

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