CVS access failures

[Chris Johns]

On 29/08/2014 3:46 am, Federico Casares wrote:
> Same error happens to me yesterday... IT block :P
>

Ouch.

> regards
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Shifflett, David (CIV)
> <shifflett at nps.edu <mailto:shifflett at nps.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I am trying to build on a Fedora 19 system.
>     I am getting a 'connection refused' error when it tries to checkout
>     newlib from sourceware.org <http://sourceware.org>
>
>     It is possible that CVS is being blocked by my IT department,
>     I am looking into that.
>
>     Can someone confirm that the CVS server at sourceware.org
>     <http://sourceware.org>
>     is up and accessible?
>
>     If CVS access is being blocked,
>     what alternatives do I have for getting things built?
>

I will figure out a suitable work around using the user macro feature.

Joel, I think we need to consider a CVS snapshot approach. Newlib seems 
stable and doing this gets us back to http or ftp get.

Chris