Re: ELKS sources - just how can the latest version be obtained?

Mario Frasca
2006-11-07T13:16:08Z

On 2006-1107 23:34:53, Steve Murray wrote:
> I've been trawling through the mailing list archives and I've seen the
> various messages indicating the on-again off-again nature of the cvs
> server. I've tried all the suggested cvs checkout commands and all I get
> is "Connection timed out".

are you using cvs from the command line or -say- from emacs? if you're
using from an environment which could hide cvs requests (like "please
insert your password") you may want to make sure that these requests
are not issued at all. you can achieve this in (more than) two ways
(but I give you the two I see), depending on your situation:

1) you're using the pserver cvs server and the anonymous user
in this case you need to 'login' before you can 'get'

2) you're using your own sourceforge account
in this case make sure you have generated a private/public key pair and
put the the public part on sourceforge. also, did you set CVS_RSH?

as far as I can recall, in the above situations you get a Connection
timed out error, but I'm not 100% sure.

maybe these instructions help:
http://amis.sourceforge.net/devel/using_cvs.html

tell us more about your setup, so help can be more to the point.

> I'm forced to appeal to you all - does someone have a tarball that I can
> download to evaluate?

mailed a link to your private email address.
it's just a dump of my CVS local copy. updated to a few weeks ago.
please be patient, my connection is quite slow.

hth,
Mario

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