My crappy CVS archive of old crap is now online via pserver!

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So yeah HOURS of fun.  Even though the database is only a few gigabytes, it took a while to rebuild everything as ‘cvs pserver’ package for Debian runs in a chroot of /var/lib/cvsd which doesn’t play nice when your archives are all created in /var/lib/cvs .. The cvs-web VM doesn’t seem to care, but the logon process for anonymous sure does.

Anyways the following archives are online:

  • 32v
  • binutils
  • cblood
  • Corridor8
  • CSRG
  • darwin0
  • darwinstep
  • djgppv1
  • dmsdos
  • doom
  • dynamips
  • frontvm
  • gas
  • gcc1x
  • gcc2x
  • gcc130-x68000
  • gdb
  • linux001
  • linux
  • lites
  • mach
  • MacMiNT
  • MiNT
  • net2
  • nextstep33examples
  • pgp
  • plan9next
  • qemu
  • quake1
  • quake2
  • research
  • rsaref
  • sbbs
  • simh
  • TekWar
  • tme
  • truecrypt
  • uae
  • winnt
  • WitchavenII
  • Witchaven
  • xinu
  • xnu

Say you are interested in Research Unix v6, you logon to the CVS server:

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/research login

And in the case of research & CSRG there is multiple modules (directories) and it’s probably best to list them to see which one you want.

$ cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/research ls
CVSROOT
researchv10dc
researchv10no
researchv3
researchv6
researchv6id
researchv6kw
researchv7hs
researchv7kb
researchv7ni
researchv7th
researchv8dc
researchv9

Which in this case I tried to keep it somewhat sane with each found distro with some initials when there was more than one… As always its easier to look through the web interface (for me) and then decide which one to checkout.

And then you can checkout v6

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/research checkout researchv6

Of if you wanted the Emacs that was in Research Unix v9:

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/research checkout researchv9/cmd/emacs

Ok, that’s great, but how about something that has all kinds of source overlaid in varous branches, like my doom repository?  First login, and then check out the default repository:

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/doom login
cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/doom checkout doom

Now we can run this quick thing I threw together to get each of the branches.

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/doom log -h | grep -P ‘^\t’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ | sort|uniq| sed -e ‘s/://g’

And now this will tell us there is the following branches:

djgppdoom
heretic
hexen
iD
jagdoom
linuxdoom
windoom

So, let’s say I want to look at the Jaguar port, with the branch name of jagdoom:

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/doom checkout -r jagdoom doom

You will get errors about not having write permission into the CVS repository to set your current tag level, but that is fine, because you don’t have permission.  And now if you check the directory it’s at the Jaguar port level, as the 68000 based assembly is now in the directory:

$ ls doom/*gas
doom/decomp.gas doom/music.gas doom/p_sight.gas doom/r_phase3.gas doom/r_phase7.gas
doom/dspbase.gas doom/p_base.gas doom/p_slide.gas doom/r_phase4.gas doom/r_phase8.gas
doom/eeprom.gas doom/p_move.gas doom/r_phase1.gas doom/r_phase5.gas doom/r_phase9.gas
doom/gpubase.gas doom/p_shoot.gas doom/r_phase2.gas doom/r_phase6.gas doom/sfx.gas
$

I don’t think many will care, but well for those who do, here you go.  Anyways the web browsing from unix.superglobalmegacorp.com should be working just fine.  Although I did move a bunch of stuff around, so people who like to deep link, I guess you are kinda screwed.

15 thoughts on “My crappy CVS archive of old crap is now online via pserver!”

  3. Somewhere along the line CVS was updated, and now it breaks my config of multiple repos.

    yay.

    Now I have to run this to fix things around.

    find ./ -type d -name CVSROOT -exec sed -i 's/LogHistory\=TMAR/#LogHistory\=TMAR/g' {}/config \;
find ./ -type d -name CVSROOT -exec sed -i 's/#LockDir\=\/var\/lock\/cvs/LockDir\=\/var\/lock\/cvs/g' {}/config \;
find ./ -type d -name CVSROOT -exec cp /virtual/unix/SOURCE/cvs-passwd {}/passwd

  4. Unable to login to cvs? Used blank:
    cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/darwin0.x login
    Logging in to :pserver:[email protected]:2401/darwin0.x
    CVS password:
    cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from unix.superglobalmegacorp.com: cvs pserver: /msdos-player/CVSROOT/config [23]: warning: duplicate LogHistory entry found.

    Any help?

  5. Can’t access the CVS server, this is what I tried:

    cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/Darwin0 checkout driverkit

    This was the reply:
    cvs [checkout aborted]: unrecognized auth response from unix.superglobalmegacorp.com: cvs [pserver aborted]: /Darwin0: no such repository

    But that’s what the code is listed under. So, how do I checkout driverkit

    • yes I had to move a lot of stuff with zero notice. I need to get some new hosting and stuff, so I turned on ads & patreon, and Ill get something up in another month. sorry I know it sucks 🙁

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