From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: Max Magorsch <arzano@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] We are finally shutting down CVS
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:30:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_=asS2j4nGQnr-G=_PHh9FBLeeNqpO68Xi_14+FTTGfJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAr7Pr8hF-gD9zCHkHFCpNVHT35yDSVH_ignYbXgSUbU+2ny8w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 1:31 PM Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 6:39 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Max Magorsch wrote:
> >
> > > To access the old repositories you can use gitweb.gentoo.org instead.
> > > We have migrated all old cvs repositories to git. All of them are
> > > available read-only now at [0].
> >
> > I've just looked at
> > https://sources.gentoo.org/archive/cvs/gentoo.git/
> > and its commit history ends in 2004.
> >
> > Can you please reinstate CVS until a more accurate conversion is
> > available?
>
> I'm happy to make tarballs available (as discussed in a bunch of
> places on irc.) Is that sufficient or is there some particular
> requirement for the CVS protocol specifically?
>
The conversion tools all just work on a bare repository (RCS
files/etc) and don't use any CVS network protocols - you don't need
any daemons running.
--
Rich
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2020-12-27 8:42 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] We are finally shutting down CVS Michał Górny
2020-12-27 18:30 ` Alec Warner
2020-12-27 14:38 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-12-27 18:31 ` Alec Warner
2020-12-27 19:30 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2020-12-30 0:18 ` Alec Warner
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