Install the CVS follow these steps:
1. Install cvs and cvsd
#apt-get install cvs cvsd
When configuring cvsd I was asked which repositories to
serve. I typed ‘/cvs’.
This means my repository will be available at cvs.myserver.com/cvs
2. Initialize the repository
#cvs -d /var/lib/cvsd/cvs init
3. Allow write access to repository
#chown cvsd:cvsd /var/lib/cvsd/cvs
4. Allow history file to be written
#chown cvsd:cvsd /var/lib/cvsd/cvs/CVSROOT/history
5. Add developer use account
#cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/cvs kk
6. Allow developer to write to repository
#echo "kk" /var/lib/cvsd/cvs/writers
After you've done that, your CVS pserver is ready to go. Now, from a remote system (in our case it is running Debian), you can access the repository.
#export CVSROOT=:pserver:username@servername:/cvs
#cvs login
From this point on you can use the remote CVS repository just like a local repository. You just have to try and remember to logout when you are done working with CVS.
#cvs logoutAssuming that you have a project held in a directory on the local machine which you wish to import simply run:#cd ~/project#cvs -d
:pserver:username@servername:/cvs import -m "first import" project username release
Once this is done you can move to a different directory and try to check it out:#cvs -d /home/cvs/ checkout project
If that works then you are done.
