On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Adam M. Dutko <dutko.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently tried to list contents of some of the CVS servers without doing a > checkout to see if it would be feasible to write a small script to identify > hot spots in the development tree based on recent commits. B I believe this > functionality is disabled due to security or resource usage concerns. > > The anoncvs.shar file shows most anon servers should chroot, drop > privileges, and use read only mounts. B I imagine it's the read only mount > that's the sticking point. B This can probably be accomplished using a local > copy or a cloned server using cvssync. B I just wanted to make sure I wasn't > missing something with regard to why ls/dir doesn't seem to work. B Thanks. > >
It's quite old, but I think that answer may be inside http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf Papers & Presentations: USENIX 1999 Opening The Source Repository With Anonymous CVS, Charles D. Cranor & Theo de Raadt Anonymous CVS is an advanced source file distribution mechanism we created to allow open source software projects to distribute source code and information about code to Internet users. Built on top of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) revision control system, Anonymous CVS safely allows anonymous read-only access to a CVS source repository. Same paper in PDF format anoncvs-paper.pdf Slides that accompany the anonymous CVS paper. Presented at USENIX 1999 in June of 1999 in Monterey, California. Same slides in PDF format anoncvs-slides.pdf
