From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 Description of problem: Running `cvs --help` produces help text which references two URLs, as follows: --- begin paste --- $ cvs --help Usage: cvs [cvs-options] command [command-options-and-arguments] where cvs-options are -q, -n, etc. (specify --help-options for a list of options) where command is add, admin, etc. (specify --help-commands for a list of commands or --help-synonyms for a list of command synonyms) where command-options-and-arguments depend on the specific command (specify -H followed by a command name for command-specific help) Specify --help to receive this message The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a tool for version control. For CVS updates and additional information, see the CVS home page at http://www.cvshome.org/ or Pascal Molli's CVS site at http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html --- end paste --- However, each of those sites currently (as of 2006-12-04) has a notice up that suggests that visitors go to different sites. In the case of http://www.cvshome.org/, visitors are directed to http://ximbiot.com/ cvs/wiki/, and in the case of http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html, visitors are directed to http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System. Please update the cvs package to reflect these changes, so that new users are not being directed to out-of-date pages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cvs-1.11.17-9.RHEL4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. From a shell on a system with cvs-1.11.17-9.RHEL4 installed, type "cvs --help". 2. Open a web browser. 3. Visit the URLs referenced in the output from "cvs --help". Actual Results: Each website referenced in the output from "cvs --help" instructed me to go elsewhere for up-to-date information about CVS. Expected Results: The output from "cvs --help" should have given me the up-to-date URLs. Additional info:
The latest stable version of CVS, 1.11.22, replaces the abovementioned URLs in the output of "cvs --help" with "http://cvs.nongnu.org/", which is a valid and current website. Perhaps a good solution would be to backport that change into the cvs RPM?
Created attachment 142778 [details] patch to bring src/main.c message for --help in line with cvs-1.11.22 This patch changes the help text displayed by "cvs --help" to reflect the text shown by the latest stable release of CVS, 1.11.22. Essentially it's a backport.
Created attachment 142779 [details] SRPM with helpURLs.patch This is a SRPM with the above-mentioned patch rolled in. It builds without any obvious problems on a RHEL4.4 system. I also changed the "URL:" field in the specfile so that it no longer refers to the obsolete "http://www.cvshome.org/", but instead to the new "http://cvs.nongnu.org".
When might I expect to see resolution of this issue? RHEL4 U5? RHEL5? I realize this bug is not critical, but it would be nice to have at least a rough timeframe. Many thanks.
Hello Jiří! I noticed that this bug has been reassigned to you. When might I expect to see this bug resolved? Is there anything else I can do to help the process along? thanks, -Steve
Hi Steve, thank you for your effort. Your patch is ok, but I have to wait for approval to release a patched version. Jiri
You're welcome! I'm glad to hear it. How long do you expect to wait for approval? I'm afraid I don't have a very good sense of how the QA cycle at Red Hat works; who determines the future of this patch? thanks, -Steve
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
testcase created in 196259 - cvs lacks LFS support
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0971.html