Anon-CVS access instructions for ZMailer source tree

Do note that these are somewhat guru-oriented instructions;
if you don't know what the CVS is, you propably should not continue here.

Subject: zmailer on anonymous-CVS
From:    mea@nic.funet.fi
To:      zmailer@nic.funet.fi
Date:    Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:06:06 +0200 (GMT)
Hello,

I am creating an anonymous CVS repository for the ZMailer.
(easiest approach out of many possibilities, I think..)

You can initialize the synced repository with commands:
(I leave it to you to recognize prompts ;) ) 

  $ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@anoncvs.zmailer.org:/cvsroot login
  Password:  cvs
  $ cd /your/source/tree
  $ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@anoncvs.zmailer.org:/cvsroot checkout zmailer
and then update it against my tree every now and then with commands: 
  $ cd /your/source/tree/zmailer
  $ cvs update -dAP
This requires CVS of version 1.8 or newer -- current (2003-Apr-3) is 1.11.2.

/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>

There exists also another r/o installation of the CVS repository courtesy of Eugene Crosser: 

  $ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.average.org:/cvsroot login
  Password:  cvs
  $ cd /your/source/tree
  $ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.average.org:/cvsroot checkout zmailer

The server is in Australia (2003-April-3), and the tree is synced daily around 2 AM GMT!

Anon-R/O-RSYNC access method to the CVS repository

Here is ZMailer CVS available thru R/O anonymous rsync

Access thru command like: 

rsync -avz anoncvs.zmailer.org::<Module> your/local/path
rsync -avz anoncvs.zmailer.org::<Module>/path/under your/local/path

The modules available are: 

Module          Content
======================================================================
ZCVS            The entire CVS repository (CVSROOT in fact) where
                the ZMailer lives in.

You may also consider adding ``-z'' option; these files are compressible...

At vger.kernel.org I have scripted following commandline as ZCVS-rsync: 

#!/bin/sh
rsync -rlztpv --delete   anoncvs.zmailer.org::ZCVS/ /home/mea/ZCVS \
          | egrep -v '/$'

Some people don't seem to know the difference in between 'Anonymous-CVS' and 'Anonymous-r/o-rsync of repository'.

The main difference is that in rsync case, you get the repository into your local system, instead of updating against it over the network. 

  $ cd /your/source/tree
  $ cvs -d /your/local/ZCVS-copy-path checkout zmailer
and then latter at first update the repository with rsync every now and then, and then update your work copy: 
  $ ZCVS-rsync
  $ cd /your/source/tree/zmailer
  $ cvs update -dAP

12 March 1998:

Summaries of log-messages given to cvs commit at my source repository are emailed to address <zmailer-update@nic.funet.fi>

You can subscribe to that list with this type of letter:

 $ Mail majordomo@nic.funet.fi
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