CVS server on Ubuntu

CVS server on Ubuntu

Install CVS files:
sudo apt-get install cvs

Install the CVS server:
sudo apt-get install cvsd

When prompted in the cvsd installation process for Repository, type in “/cvsrepo”.

Now that the cvsd installation in complete goto /var/lib/cvsd

or seeking for a change(or if there is a new version of cvs updated):

sudo cvsd-buildroot /var/lib/cvsd

If the folder cvsrepo does not exist, then create it ..
sudo mkdir cvsrepo

sudo chown -R cvsd:cvsd cvsrepo

and then initilize the repository
sudo cvs -d /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo init

create a user and password

sudo cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo +username

sudo vi //var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo/CVSROOT/config

Change "SystemAuto=no"

Test

cvs -d :pserver:username@localhost:/cvsrepo login

cvs -d :pserver:username@localhost:/cvsrepo checkout .