Bug Fix Advisory cvs bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2009:0971-1
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-05-18
Last updated on: 2009-05-18
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated CVS package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Concurrent Version System (CVS) is a version control system that can record
the history of your files.

This updated package addresses the following bugs:

* some server operations failed when the CVS history file became larger
than 2 GB. Large file support has been added to CVS, and files larger than
2 GB are now supported. (BZ#196259)

* mismatches between hosts sometimes caused the CVS client to present
incorrect credentials to servers with gserver authentication. This patch
ensures the correct credentials are supplied by confirming the IP address
of the currently-connected server so that host mismatch does not occur.
(BZ#217035)

* some URLs were out of date in the CVS help section. Help URLs have been
updated, and users are now directed to the correct pages. (BZ#218324)

* using rtag in CVS caused an assertion error. This update removes the
assert statement so that rtag may be used in CVS. (BZ#441694)

* attempting to process large numbers of files with long names caused
problems with some scripts due to lengthy command line arguments. This
problem has been resolved by adding the possibility of passing arguments
through standard input. (BZ#462072)

* when users attempted to generate debug information, the document would be
generated without debug sections. This has been corrected, and debug
information is now generated with debug sections included. (BZ#468165)

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated CVS package, which resolves
these issues.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.src.rpm     9cf047df4cdbcb60c31391babed59b0d
 
IA-32:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.i386.rpm     f247f9e514185b77b16cee2e2737dd98
 
x86_64:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.x86_64.rpm     f532c81426ff0ee97cf534250d353d99
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.src.rpm     9cf047df4cdbcb60c31391babed59b0d
 
IA-32:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.i386.rpm     f247f9e514185b77b16cee2e2737dd98
 
IA-64:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.ia64.rpm     6f4dc46eb81de26605b6a0b8199ea3ba
 
PPC:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.ppc.rpm     a289d461fcc3cca9c7f79a2c336aff6b
 
s390:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.s390.rpm     1f2ac270bc92d6b2cafdb5ff54d14094
 
s390x:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.s390x.rpm     8de916c475abe6475831b277b55b7cab
 
x86_64:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.x86_64.rpm     f532c81426ff0ee97cf534250d353d99
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.src.rpm     9cf047df4cdbcb60c31391babed59b0d
 
IA-32:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.i386.rpm     f247f9e514185b77b16cee2e2737dd98
 
IA-64:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.ia64.rpm     6f4dc46eb81de26605b6a0b8199ea3ba
 
x86_64:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.x86_64.rpm     f532c81426ff0ee97cf534250d353d99
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.src.rpm     9cf047df4cdbcb60c31391babed59b0d
 
IA-32:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.i386.rpm     f247f9e514185b77b16cee2e2737dd98
 
IA-64:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.ia64.rpm     6f4dc46eb81de26605b6a0b8199ea3ba
 
x86_64:
cvs-1.11.17-11.el4.x86_64.rpm     f532c81426ff0ee97cf534250d353d99
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

196259 - cvs lacks LFS support
218324 - `cvs -help` lists out-of-date URLs
441694 - cvs assertion failure
462072 - cvs tag hits the arguments limits
468165 - cvs debuginfo is empty


Keywords

cvs


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