Tutorial: cvs server on FreeNAS
First, when I started to research if “cvs” would work on my FreeNAS I found a whole lot of links to cvsd… but I recall using cvs over ssh for many many projects. Couldn’t I run just cvs over ssh?
Yes You Can!!! And this makes cvs on FreeNAS easier than ever. Not much modification is required, and I am very happy to report that I’ve got mine working very well.
So let’s get into it shall we?
In order to get cvs working, we need the cvs binary. FreeNAS is a FreeBSD core underneath the covers. There are many many releases of FreeBSD so we should find out what release we have. We can do this by running uname on the command prompt of your FreeNAS.
Mine says:
nas:/mnt/default# uname -a FreeBSD nas.ejes.gotdns.org 6.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Apr 18 22:17:59 UTC 2009 root@vmbsd64i386:/usr/obj/freenas/usr/src/sys/FREENAS-i386 i386 nas:/mnt/default#
Now that I have the release number, I can simply browse the FreeBSD repository at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org (the 6.4 release is ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.4-RELEASE/6.4-RELEASE/packages/All/), and following the directory tree you can find most any other release.
Simply download the “cvs” binary cvs+ipv6-1.11.17_1.tbz (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.4-RELEASE/6.4-RELEASE/packages/All/cvs+ipv6-1.11.17_1.tbz)
I used fetch on my system:
nas:/mnt/default# fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.4-RELEASE/6.4-RELEASE/packages/All/cvs+ipv6-1.11.17_1.tbz cvs+ipv6-1.11.17_1.tbz
100% of 442 kB 266 kBps
Then, in the GUI, I added a group called “cvs”, I gave it the group id 2401 because port 2401 was the cvs server port (and I may want to use pserver one day).
The Group I used for my cvs
the user _cvs for myself
Thankfully a tbz file means a tar bzipped file. So we can use tar to extract the package from freeBSD i want all my cvs stuff in one place so i’m going to extract it to my /mnt/default/cvs/tmp directory.
nas:/mnt/default/cvs/tmp# tar -vxzf cvs+ipv6-1.11.17_1.tbz x +CONTENTS x +COMMENT x +DESC x +MTREE_DIRS x man/man1/cvs.1.gz x man/man5/cvs.5.gz x man/man8/cvsbug.8.gz x bin/cvs x bin/cvsbug x bin/rcs2log x share/cvs/contrib/README x share/cvs/contrib/check_cvs x share/cvs/contrib/clmerge x share/cvs/contrib/cln_hist x share/cvs/contrib/commit_prep x share/cvs/contrib/cvs2vendor x share/cvs/contrib/cvs_acls x share/cvs/contrib/cvscheck x share/cvs/contrib/cvscheck.man x share/cvs/contrib/debug_check_log x share/cvs/contrib/intro.doc x share/cvs/contrib/log x share/cvs/contrib/log_accum x share/cvs/contrib/mfpipe x share/cvs/contrib/pvcs2rcs x share/cvs/contrib/rcs-to-cvs x share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log x share/cvs/contrib/rcslock x share/cvs/contrib/sccs2rcs x info/cvs.info x info/cvs.info-1 x info/cvs.info-10 x info/cvs.info-2 x info/cvs.info-3 x info/cvs.info-4 x info/cvs.info-5 x info/cvs.info-6 x info/cvs.info-7 x info/cvs.info-8 x info/cvs.info-9 x info/cvsclient.info x info/cvsclient.info-1 x info/cvsclient.info-2 x info/cvsclient.info-3 nas:/mnt/default/cvs/tmp#
Go back and “Give full shell access to user.” to the _cvs user and log-in or “su _cvs” to become him.
Now we have to initialize the cvs root directory; mine is /mnt/default/cvs/root. Run cvs init, and we’re off.
nas:/mnt/default/cvs/tmp# su _cvs %cvs -d ~/root init %exit nas:/mnt/default# chown -R _cvs:cvs cvs nas:/mnt/default#
Everything should be functional, all we need to do now is add anyone we want to be able to access cvs, to the “cvs” group. I added “user” as a test.
On my OpenBSD terminal I setup a simple cvs system
$ CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d:ext:_cvs@nas:/mnt/default/cvs/root checkout .
works! GREAT!! Add my user to the “cvs” group, remove “shell” access from _cvs done!
My Remote users have to set these settings:
CVS_RSH=ssh
CVSROOT=:ext:user@host:/mnt/default/cvs/root
CVSEDITOR=nano
Now I can import directories using: cvs import -m “comment” module_name committer start
Check them out on another machine using: cvs checkout module_name
Add files or directories: cvs add “file/directory”
And Commit my changes once they’re made: cvs commit
For example:
nas:/mnt/default# ssh user@192.168.0.2 user@192.168.0.2's password: Last login: Tue Aug 4 16:46:50 2009 from 192.168.0.3 OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC) #1021: Tue Aug 12 17:16:55 MDT 2008 Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system. Please use the sendbug(1) utility to report bugs in the system. Before reporting a bug, please try to reproduce it with the latest version of the code. With bug reports, please try to ensure that enough information to reproduce the problem is enclosed, and if a known fix for it exists, include that as well. $ CVS_RSH=ssh; export CVS_RSH $ CVSROOT=:ext:user@192.168.0.3:/mnt/default/cvs/root; export CVSROOT $ CVSEDITOR=nano;export CVSEDITOR=nano $ mkdir src $ cd src $ mkdir testing $ cd testing $ touch a file $ ls a file $ cvs import -m "testing" test ejes start user@192.168.0.3's password: N test/a N test/file No conflicts created by this import $ mkdir new $ cvs add n $ touch new/more $ cd .. $ ls testing $ rm -rf testing/ $ cvs checkout test user@192.168.0.3's password: cvs checkout: Updating test U test/a U test/file $ cd test $ mkdir new $ touch new/more $ cvs add new user@192.168.0.3's password: ? new/more Directory /mnt/default/cvs/root/test/new added to the repository $ cvs add new/more user@192.168.0.3's password: cvs add: scheduling file `new/more' for addition cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently $ cvs commit cvs commit: Examining . cvs commit: Examining new user@192.168.0.3's password: RCS file: /mnt/default/cvs/root/test/new/more,v done Checking in new/more; /mnt/default/cvs/root/test/new/more,v <-- more initial revision: 1.1 done $
