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

>> 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.

Cool.  Glad you figured that out!

>> 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.

The "filename" token is a CVSNT addition, yes.  RCS is a relatively flexible
format, though, built for expansion and customization.  Interesting that you
only see problems on files with underscores in their names...  my
understanding of the RCS file format does *not* lead me to believe that the
underscore character is specifically disallowed.  *shrug*   At least it
seems you have a workaround that's doing the trick for you.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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