OT - Access to RTEMS CVS from behind firewall

[Joel Sherrill]

Robert S. Grimes wrote:
> Hi Joel, Thomas,
>
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Doerfler (nt) wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>> I did not use these tools (because I manage our firewall :-))))
>>     
> Lucky you!
>   
>> but maybe you should use the follwoing URL instead?
>> http://www.rtems.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
>>     
> Still no joy.
>   
>>> I also noticed that the cvsget I just downloaded is 4 years old
>>> and that the "checkout" string is "~checkout~" which doesn't
>>> match the viewcvs.cgi code.  There may be other issues.
>>>       
> On mine, the checkout string is *checkout*.  What is it in the
> viewcvs.cgi?  Though I'm afraid there may be more problems lurking.
>   

The web site is also in CVS.  Since you can't use port 2401,
try this URL:

http://www.rtems.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wwwrtems/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi?rev=1.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>>> cvsgrab looks more current but I couldn't make heads or tails
>>> of installing it in the little time I looked at it.
>>>       
> I can't get that to work either, and the Python error trace I never
> mastered. But it seems that it can't find www.rtems.com _or_ my proxy host.
>
> Not sure what to try next, but thanks for the help anyway!
>   
That's strange.  I found code in it which passed --quiet to wget
and I deleted that.  But I couldn't learn much except that it
downloaded an index.html.

> -Bob
>   
>>> --joel
>>>       
>> wkr,
>> Thomas.
>>
>>
>> Robert S. Grimes schrieb:
>>  
>>     
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the OT, but perhaps I need some information specific to the
>>>>> RTEMS CVS setup.  I'm behind a nasty firewall, and can't get to
>>>>>           
>> the CVS
>>     
>>>>> repository.  I've tried cvsgrab (no luck at all) and now cvsget.pl
>>>>> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/cvsget/), which seems to almost
>>>>> work.  But I get an error that suggests I'm not using the correct url
>>>>> for it.  The script shows an example like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>   perl -S cvsget.pl
>>>>> --baseurl=http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/
>>>>> --package=emacs
>>>>>
>>>>> I try this:
>>>>>
>>>>>   perl -S cvsget.pl --baseurl=http://www.rtems.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs
>>>>> --package=rtems
>>>>>
>>>>> I get error like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Error updating "./cvs/rtems/index.html" from
>>>>> "http://www.rtems.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs/rtems//"
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's my suspicion - the script states the following in the usage
>>>>> section about the baseurl parameter:
>>>>>
>>>>>     $baseurl must be the base URL for download link, NOT view link
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I'm using the "view link" and not the "download link".  I
>>>>>           
>> don't
>>     
>>>>> know, though I certainly can guess, what these different "links" are,
>>>>> but I'm guessing I need a different URL.  Does anyone know what I
>>>>>           
>> should
>>     
>>>>> use?
>>>>>
>>>>> If I can get this to work, I'll update the wiki on how I did it for
>>>>> other "firewall dwellers" to use...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> -Bob
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>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>     
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