Re: CVS upgrade

[Larry Jones]

Sequeira, Brian writes:
> 
> We were planning to upgrade CVS from 1.10.7 to 1.11.5 with the security
> update. We are currently running SunOS 5.7 and the closest binary I could
> find was CVS 1.11.5-SUNOS-5.6.gz. Would this work? Or do I need to compile
> the source code for this version.

Binaries will usually work just fine on later releases, so the 5.6
binaries should be fine on 5.7.

> Could someone please advise on how to process with CVS upgrade. I could not
> find any documentation on the upgrade process. 

Simply replace the CVS executable with the new one.  It's a good idea to
then run "cvs init" on each repository to update the administrative
files if necessary, but it's not required.

-Larry Jones

All this was funny until she did the same thing to me. -- Calvin