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## Appendix D. Using CVS with an OpenACS Site

By Joel Aufrecht

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Add the Service to CVS - OPTIONAL. These steps take an existing OpenACS directory and add it to a CVS repository.

1. Create and set permissions on a subdirectory in the local cvs repository.

       [root root]# mkdir /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [root root]# chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [root root]#
       mkdir /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

2. Add the repository location to the user environment. On some systems, you may get better results with .bash_profile instead of .bashrc.

       [root root]# su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ emacs .bashrc

   Put this string into `/home/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/.bashrc`:

       export CVSROOT=/cvsroot

       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ exit
       logout

       [root root]#

3. Import all files into cvs. In order to work on files with source control, the files must be checked out from cvs. So we will import, move aside, and then check out all of the files. In the cvs import command, `$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME` refers to the cvs repository to use; it uses the CVSROOT plus this string, i.e. `/cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME`. "OpenACS" is the vendor tag, and "openacs-5-1-4-final" is the release tag. These tags will be useful in upgrading and branching. -m sets the version comment.

       [root root]# su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ cvs import -m "initial install" $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME OpenACS openacs-5-1-4-final
       N $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/license.txt
       N $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/readme.txt
       (many lines omitted)
       N $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/www/SYSTEM/flush-memoized-statement.tcl

       No conflicts created by this import

       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ exit
       [root root]#
       su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       cvs import -m "initial install" $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME OpenACS openacs-5-1-4-final
       exit

   Move the original directory to a temporary location, and check out the cvs repository in its place.

       [root root]# mv /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/tmp
       [root root]# mkdir /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [root root]# chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [root root]# su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver
       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ cvs checkout $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       cvs checkout: Updating $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       U $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/license.txt
       (many lines omitted)
       U $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/www/SYSTEM/dbtest.tcl
       U $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/www/SYSTEM/flush-memoized-statement.tcl
       [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ exit
       logout

       [root root]#

       mv /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/tmp
       mkdir /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       cd /var/lib/aolserver
       cvs checkout $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
       exit

4. If the service starts correctly, come back and remove the temporary copy of the uploaded files.

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