[daip] aips update didn't work for me this morning

[Eric Greisen]

Susan Neff wrote:
> On 1/7/13 12:25 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:
>> Susan Neff wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, will try again tonight if I'm allowed to take my laptop home
>>> (encryption time).
>>> Is there any meaning to
>>>
>>> UPDCVS - cvscmd=/usr/bin/cvs defined but can't execute!
>> Yes - this is the cause of the error.  You cannot execute cvs since it
>> is not allowed in your account or something - go look in /usr/bin and
>> see what you can find.  (ls -laF cvs*)
>>
> Okay, I think the MNJ worked this last try.
> 
> 
> It turned out I didn't have cvs at all ... Apple 10.8 assumes that
> most users don't need it  (I believe you, or maybe Wes, warned me
> about this, but you were attributing it to likely system manager bias,
> not Apple bias).   In case this turns out to be an issue for others, I
> had to download xworks from Apple (free, but requires an AppleID
> ?and an ITUNES account? with Apple), and then copy cvs from the
> buried location in the xworks directory to the location where the
> rest of the world expects it to be (/usr/bin).
> 
> 
> My sysadmin got really excited when I asked him about cvs, because
> it apparently uses a port with a high enough number that our firewall
> police don't block it.  ??Apparently it's possible to do this sort of
> update without rsync??  However, we still got blocked when I tried
> to run MNJ from work, because of the rsync issues - at least we got
> error messages.  Running MNJ from home seems to have worked, though.

For local compilation we do not use rsync - only for the binaries.  We 
do not use the code versioning for binaries (I do not know if it would 
even work for binaries).  Thus rsync is more "dangerous" than cvs.

Glad it worked.

Eric