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@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ perl5 perl version 5 or greater available from www.cpan.org
expect http://expect.nist.gov/ We highly suggest that you stick to
expect 5.24.1 (or so). This seems to work best. Note that
you need to have the accompanying tcl &/ tk.
+svn Code revision system, an alternative to cvs. Available from
+ http://subversion.tigris.org/tarballs/. Use the configure
+ option --enable-svn to configure for Subversion.
tcl Required by expect.
Bill Fenner (now maintained by others) has a cgi script for interacting
@@ -99,10 +102,10 @@ Quick Installation Guide (an example):
./configure --prefix=/home/rancid
Rancid uses autoconf's "localstatedir" as the location of it's logs,
- CVS respository, and directories where it's groups are placed. The user
- who will run rancid (from cron, etc) will need write access to these
- directories. By default, this is <prefix>/var, or /home/rancid/var
- following the example above.
+ CVS or Subversion respository, and directories where it's groups are
+ placed. The user who will run rancid (from cron, etc) will need write
+ access to these directories. By default, this is <prefix>/var, or
+ /home/rancid/var following the example above.
We realize that this is not optimal, but it follows the standards. We
suggest that this be altered to include the package name, like so:
@@ -160,10 +163,10 @@ Quick Installation Guide (an example):
7) Run rancid-cvs.
This creates all of the necessary directories and config files for
- each of the groups in LIST_OF_GROUPS and imports them into CVS. This
- will also be run each time a new group is added. Do not create the
- directories or CVS repository manually, allow rancid-cvs do it. Also see
- 'man -M <basedir>/man rancid-cvs'.
+ each of the groups in LIST_OF_GROUPS and imports them into CVS (or
+ Subversion). This will also be run each time a new group is added. Do
+ not create the directories or CVS repository manually, allow rancid-cvs
+ do it. Also see 'man -M <basedir>/man rancid-cvs'.
8) For each "group", modify the router.db file in the group directory.
The file is of the form "router:mfg:state" where "router" is