Re: FC2 CVS update-testing Package

[Pekka Savola <pekkas netcore fi>]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, David Curry wrote:
> Some question about CVS: 
> I have no experience with use of cvs and it is not currently installed on my 
> system.  I am willing to install the updated package on my system to help 
> verify the update, but at the moment the only thing I could "test" would be 
> package installaltion.
>
> As one who is unlikely to program anything or develop code to patch bugs, 
> security exposures, etc., could CVS be useful to me for other purposes?  I am 
> open to suggestions and willing to spend a little time developing a CVS 
> installation on my system to help out the QA process.

Fortunately, CVS got just a couple of days ago enough VERIFY votes 
that the update can be published, so there is no dire need at this 
point.

Whether you'd _really_ need CVS depends a lot on whether you have 
a lot of systems to manage which you need to manage in a systematic 
manner (e.g., by keeping a local repository of configuration file 
changes, etc.).

But for testing purposes, it would be sufficient to take a development 
project, for example Fedora Core 
[http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/core.shtml], and check out something 
from there (the page has emacs as an example).  That allows you to 
play with cvs a bit.

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