anoncvs -- use rsync !

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

"PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:

    PaulG> I'm trying to do cvs -d
    PaulG> :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.r-project.org:/home/rcvs/src login

    PaulG> and I get "authorization failed...rejected access" with the
    PaulG> previously advertised password (anoncvs). Has the access been
    PaulG> changed or is anyone else having this problem? I'm not very
    PaulG> familiar with cvs so I may be making some mistake.

hmm,  I thought we finally *didn't* allow anonymous cvs,
{one reason being the log files publicity?},

but rather recommend and advertize  rsync (which also works for CRAN, btw).

We were providing anonymous cvs access in addition to anonymous rsync
access but now the configuration for the anonymous pserver account
seems to be botched up.  I don't know enough about the anonymous cvs
setup to fix it right now and don't have time to learn about it.  If
Tony Rossini or Duncan Temple Lang have time to fix it, we'll get it
fixed.  Otherwise I recommend we discontinue anonymous cvs.  

Most everything people want from anonymous cvs can be accomplished
much more cleanly with anonymous rsync.  The only advantages of
anonymous cvs are for people who do want to read the log files or want
to check out copies of earlier versions.

Since any checkouts by the anonymous user must be able to update the
history files, the anonymous CVS tree is actually a copy of the
production CVS tree.  

I would recommend using anonymous rsync.
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