Re: CVS and proxies: testers wanted

Hi

I'm sending a reply to a mail about using cvs for fink
behind a firewall using a http proxy. I found this mail
in the web archive.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=49B5DDF0.4030109%40gmail.com&forum_name=fink-users

From: Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.hansen <at> gm...> - 2009-03-10 03:27
> As best as I can tell, our cvs-proxy package doesn't work on Leopard
> (possibly not even on Tiger); and I've discontinued providing cvs there
> in any case, since Xcode provides the latest version. I'm trying to
> find a more reliable solution for people with http proxies. I don't
> have one, myself, and I don't really have enough time to try setting one up.
> 
> According to the info page for cvs on Leopard, people should be able to
> try the following syntax there:
> 
> cvs d-:pserver;proxy=www.myproxy.net;proxyport=8000:\
> anonymous <at> fi...:/cvsroot/fink login
> 
> cvs d-:pserver;proxy=www.myproxy.net;proxyport=8000:\
> anonymous <at> fi...:/cvsroot/fink co fink
> 
> where you need to replace 'www.myproxy.net' by your proxy address, and '8000' by your actual proxy port.

I confirmed that the way above actually works in our macs with 
Snow Leopard and Leopard, if we put several quotations("), e.g.,

  cvs -d":pserver;proxy=proxy.example.com;proxyport=8080:anonymous@(soory I forgot the strings
here)/cvsroot/fink" login

To realize it, I hardcoded this at perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate/CVS.pm
in fink-0.29.10:

  --- CVS.pm.orig	2010-02-03 11:57:14.000000000 +0900
  +++ CVS.pm	2010-02-03 12:40:37.000000000 +0900
  @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
			  $cmd = "cvs ${verbosity} -z3 -d$cvsrepository";
		  }
		  else {
  -			$cmd = "cvs -d:pserver:anonymous\@$cvsrepository login";
  +			$cmd = "cvs
-d\":pserver;proxy=proxy.example.com;proxyport=8080:anonymous\@$cvsrepository\" login";
			  if ($username ne "root") {
				  $cmd = "/usr/bin/su $username -c '$cmd'";
			  }
  @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
				  die "Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed.\n";
			  }
			  else {
  -				$cmd = "cvs ${verbosity} -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous\@$cvsrepository";
  +				$cmd = "cvs ${verbosity} -z3 -d\":pserver;proxy=proxy.example.com;proxyport=8080:anonymous\@$cvsrepository\"";
			  }
		  }
	  } else {

I know hardcoding the proxy configulation is stupid, but 
it works for me. 

By the way, the specification of proxy in cvs command line has a side 
effect that the postinst of fink-mirror fails. This must be resolved 
by the following patch:

  --- /sw/lib/fink/mirror/postinstall.pl.orig	2010-02-03 13:06:10.000000000 +0900
  +++ /sw/lib/fink/mirror/postinstall.pl	2010-02-03 13:19:19.000000000 +0900
  @@ -53,14 +53,14 @@
       open(IN,'<',"$sentinel_cvs/Root") or die "can't open $sentinel_cvs/Root: $!";
       while (defined($_=<IN>)) {
	   chomp;
  -        if (/^(:\w+:\w+)@(.+)$/) {
  +        if (/^(:\S+:\S+)@(.+)$/) {
	       $method_user = $1;
	       $repo = $2;
	   }
       }
       close(IN);
       die "couldn't parse $sentinel_cvs/Root\n" unless ((defined $method_user) and (defined $repo));
  -    if (defined $method_user and $method_user eq ":pserver:anonymous") {
  +    if (defined $method_user and $method_user =~ /^:pserver(.*):anonymous$/) {
	  $repo_file = "/sw/lib/fink/URL/anonymous-cvs";
       } else {
	  $repo_file = "/sw/lib/fink/URL/developer-cvs";

Sincerely,
Atushi Tanaka

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