<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I just looked at the 'rancid-cvs'; it looks like the shell script is hard-coded for local file (non-URL) location of the CVS/SVN repository.<br><br>I am going to hack my installation 'rancid-cvs' to see if I can get the remote URL for SVN import and SVN checkout to work.<br><br>Daniel Chen<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Ian Narcisi" &lt;iannai29@gmail.com&gt;<br><b>To: </b>rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, January 6, 2011 11:47:55 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [rancid] Pointing existing rancid from local svn repo to remote&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;svn<br><br>When attempting to install rancid svn to a remote server, I get the following message: <br><br>[root@rancid-dev bin]# ./rancid-cvs<br><b>svnadmin: 
'<a href="https://secure2.test.com/svn/repo/server/network-configs/CVS" target="_blank">https://secure2.test.com/svn/repo/server/network-configs/CVS</a>' is an URL
 when it should be a path</b><br><br># BASEDIR=/usr/local/rancid/var/rancid; export BASEDIR<br>PATH=/usr/local/rancid/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin; export PATH<br><br># Location of the CVS/SVN repository.&nbsp; Be careful changing this.<br>
# CVSROOT=$BASEDIR/CVS; export CVSROOT<br><b><br>CVSROOT=<a href="https://secure2.test.com/svn/repo/server/network-configs/CVS" target="_blank">https://secure2.test.com/svn/repo/server/network-configs/CVS</a>; export CVSROOT</b><br><br># Location of log files produced by rancid-run(1).<br>
# LOGDIR=$BASEDIR/logs; export LOGDIR<br><b><br>LOGDIR=<a href="https://secure2.test.com/svn/repo/server/network-configs/logs" target="_blank">https://secure2.test.com/svn/repo/server/network-configs/logs</a>; export LOGDIR</b><br><br># Select which RCS system to use, "cvs" (default) or "svn".&nbsp; Do not change<br>
# this after CVSROOT has been created with rancid-cvs.&nbsp; Changing between these<br># requires manual conversions.<br><br><b>RCSSYS=svn; export RCSSYS</b><br><br>Any ideas/solutions would be most welcome!<br><br><br><br><br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ian Narcisi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:iannai29@gmail.com" target="_blank">iannai29@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Is this simply altering the BASEDIR=/"local repo" to BASEDIR="/<a href="https://x.x.x.x/repo" target="_blank">https://x.x.x.x/repo</a>, or Is there more to this?<br><br>Thank you<br clear="all">
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ian Narcisi<br>Progressive Rock indie musician<br>Singer/songwriter, drummer, keyboardist<br><br><a href="http://www.ianmusic.com" target="_blank">www.ianmusic.com</a><br><a href="http://iannarcisi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://iannarcisi.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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