CVS is the Concurrent Versioning System. This is a version control system useful for projects using a central repository to hold files and then track all changes made to those files. These instructions install the client used to manipulate the repository, creation of a repository is covered at Running a CVS Server.
Download (HTTP): https://ccvs.cvshome.org/files/documents/19/534/cvs-1.11.18.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1dd5c16064906617e4358738bfe59b66
Download size: 2.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 20 MB
Estimated build time: 0.31 SBU
Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.0/cvs-1.11.18-zlib-1.patch
By default CVS is statically linked against the zlib library included in its source tree. This makes it exposed to possible security vulnerabilities in that library. If you want to modify CVS to use the newest system shared zlib library apply the following patch:
patch -Np1 -i ../cvs-1.11.18-zlib-1.patch
Install cvs by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install
~/.cvsrc is the main CVS configuration file. This file is used by users to specify defaults for different cvs commands, for example to make all cvs diff commands run with -u, a user would add diff -u to their .cvsrc file.
~/.cvswrappers specifies wrappers to be used in addition to those specified in the CVSROOT/cvswrappers file in the repository.
~/.cvspass can hold passwords to complete logins to servers.
The CVS package contains cvs, cvsbug and rcs2log.
Last updated on 2005-02-11 08:57:40 -0700