[Savannah-hackers] CVS repository going noexec and syncmail related thingies

[Vincent Caron]

Hello hackers,

  here is some information that could make a Savannah news post, I let 
the admins judge/edit/post it. Due to some funny chaining of events, I 
happened to handle some consequences of the CVS repository going noexec 
(very nice idea BTW, rooting the old RedHats running on SF is way to 
easy - not that I tried :)).

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For security reasons, the CVS repositories are now hosted on 
non-executable mounts. It means that if you uploaded various tools and 
script (most notably mail-on-commits items), they won't work from now. 
However the Savannah team tried to offer some (better) replacement 
solutions.

Syncmail users : the latest version from the main branch of Syncmail 
(revision 1.36 from http://syncmail.sf.net) has been installed. Please 
replace occurences of '$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/syncmail' with a simple 
'syncmail' in your CVS control files.

Log_accum/Commit_prep users : Savannah has some in-house-tweaked 
versions installed that should still fit your needs. Strip 
'$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/' parts from the script inovocations.

CIAbot users : until someone comes up with a patch (ie. no hardcoded 
project values), we can't fix that issue.

Other strange scripts : please contact <address@hidden>.

Please note that the latest version of CVSreport 
(http://www.nongnu.org/cvsreport/) has been installed and can replace 
the previous scripts with more versatility in many cases. Add a single 
line like the following in your CVSROOT/commitinfo to try it :

ALL    cvsreport -e 'mail text+html address@hidden'

[Sorry for the inconvenience, happy hacking, etc ?]

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If you hackers are okay with this, I'll update the Savannah docs 
accordingly.

I've also grepped for all exec'able in projects CVSROOTs, the list is in 
/root/cvsroot_script_list. Maybe it would be helpful to be preventive 
about bugreports (this is what triggered my action) and try to forward 
this message directly to the admins of the identified projects (they are 
'only' 32). List attached.
a2ps
adonthell
cp-tools
directvnc
dolibarr
dotgnu-pnet
dpge
epnadmin
gnokii
gnueval
gnulib
jilc
l4hurd
lilypond
make
moss
nuxeo
openap
paragui
phpgroupware
qhull
mhonarc
vnix
py-rrdtool
nmh
dotgnu-libs
ftba
grdesktop
ayttm
pysysinfo
hangul
giftcurs
stratagus