Migrating cvs repositories from Linux to FreeBSD

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 22), login at istop.com said:
> I got two hosts with the following specs: 
> 
> The oldhost is running Mandrake Linux 8.2 version 2.4.18-6mdk 
> and newhost is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. 
> 
> The cvs versions on these hosts are:
> 
> oldhost# cvs -v
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1p1 (client/server)
> 
> newhost# /usr/local/sbin/cvsd --version
> cvsd 1.0.0

5.2.1 came with cvs 1.11.5, I think.  cvsd should be transparent to the
client and server.

> Now only concern is how to migrate or move the cvs repositories from 
> the oldhost [Linux] to newhost [FreeBSD]. 
> 
> The steps, I think, may be involve to accomplish this task are:
> 
> 1. make identical user accounts on newhost as oldhost ones
> 2. announce to users and  stop the cvs server on oldhost
> 3. on oldhost, backup the CVSROOT 
> 4. on newhost, restore the CVSROOT
> 5. start the cvs server on newhost
> 6. point the users to start using newhost for checkin/checkout stuff
> 
> Is this a valid sequence? Am I missing any point? Would there be 
> inconsitency as the cvs version are not same on these hosts?

That should work fine.  CVS has always used the same repository format
so version differences shouldn't matter. 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com