"Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

"Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Cook, Kelley (R.K.)]

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The useful annotate feature is no longer working on the GCC Projects'
CVSWeb at both
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ and 
 http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gcc/.  

Strangely, they fail in different ways

For example,
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/config.if?annotate=1.9 gives a
500 Internal Error

While the mirrored copy at
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gcc/gcc/Makefile.def?annotate=1.7
just brings you back to the CVS log list.

Could somebody look into it?

Thanks,
R. Kelley Cook
Ford Edison Project
Distributed Readiness and Project Assurance
313.337.5246
kcook34@ford.com


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Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Neil Booth]

Cook, Kelley (R.K.) wrote:-

> The useful annotate feature is no longer working on the GCC Projects'
> CVSWeb at both
>  
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ and 
>  http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gcc/.  
> 
> Strangely, they fail in different ways
> 
> For example,
> http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/config.if?annotate=1.9 gives a
> 500 Internal Error

Agreed.  It's been this way for roughly 2 months I think.

The FSF web site never worked, we've only started failing recently.

Neil.

Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Neil Booth wrote:
>> The useful annotate feature is no longer working on the GCC Projects'
>> CVSWeb at both
> Agreed.  It's been this way for roughly 2 months I think.
>
> The FSF web site never worked, we've only started failing recently.

FYI, I had forwarded this to overseers@gcc.gnu.org and Ian had a look:
it seems this is hard to fix (mostly caused by the uberbaum repository),
and for now Ian thus disabled the annotate feature.

Gerald
-- 
Gerald "Jerry"   pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

RE: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Cook, Kelley (R.K.)]

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
>> I don't know how httpd sets the supplementary groups, so I don't know 
>> whether this matters.
>> 
>> I've changed the webusers in /etc/group to apache and restarted httpd. 
>> I can't see any way to find what groups are assigned to a running 
>> process, so I don't know if this will do any good or not but do you 
>> want to turn annotate back on and see what happens?
>
> Done, and it works.  Thanks Chris.  Thanks Jason.
>
> Ian

And there was much rejoicing ... (yea!)

Thanks all,
Kelley Cook

Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

> >I don't know how httpd sets the supplementary groups, so I don't know
> >whether this matters.
> 
> I've changed the webusers in /etc/group to apache and restarted httpd.
> I can't see any way to find what groups are assigned to a running
> process, so I don't know if this will do any good or not but do you want
> to turn annotate back on and see what happens?

Done, and it works.  Thanks Chris.  Thanks Jason.

Ian

Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:40:53PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> webuser has the same uid as apache (by design) so this should not be an
>> issue should it?
>
>When logging in, the supplementary groups in /etc/groups are set based
>on the login name, not the login UID.  Two user names can share a uid
>but that does not imply that they share the same supplementary groups.

Slap forehead.  Right.

>I don't know how httpd sets the supplementary groups, so I don't know
>whether this matters.

I've changed the webusers in /etc/group to apache and restarted httpd.
I can't see any way to find what groups are assigned to a running
process, so I don't know if this will do any good or not but do you want
to turn annotate back on and see what happens?

cgf

Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

> webuser has the same uid as apache (by design) so this should not be an
> issue should it?

When logging in, the supplementary groups in /etc/groups are set based
on the login name, not the login UID.  Two user names can share a uid
but that does not imply that they share the same supplementary groups.

I don't know how httpd sets the supplementary groups, so I don't know
whether this matters.

Ian

Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:40:50PM -0700, Jason Molenda wrote:
>Hi all, sorry for not participating in this discussion earlier -
>I had a code freeze Thursday and then I flew out to Minnesota Friday
>morning (where I am still located, much to my chagrin).
>
>cvsweb used to be able to write in the cvs directories so this would
>work - it ran as user 'webuser', which is in each of the project's
>entires in /etc/group.
>
>A few options:
>
>  1. Leave cvs annotate disabled
>
>  2. Change all the 'webuser' entries in /etc/group to 'apache'.

webuser has the same uid as apache (by design) so this should not be an
issue should it?

cgf

Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Jason Molenda]

Hi all, sorry for not participating in this discussion earlier -
I had a code freeze Thursday and then I flew out to Minnesota Friday
morning (where I am still located, much to my chagrin).

cvsweb used to be able to write in the cvs directories so this would
work - it ran as user 'webuser', which is in each of the project's
entires in /etc/group.

A few options:

  1. Leave cvs annotate disabled

  2. Change all the 'webuser' entries in /etc/group to 'apache'.

  3. Eat the time to do the switch to viewcvs.  On the up side,
     viewcvs is being maintained and works entirely read-only.  On
     the down side, we have a few hacks to cvsweb which are convenient
     and we'd need to reimplement them.

Sorry for not joining in on the discussion earlier,

Jason

Re: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Cook, Kelley \(R.K.\)" <kcook34@ford.com> writes:

> Since I can't test it, I'm not entirely sure if this will help, but it
> appears that the FreeBSD folks seem to developed a workaround for some of
> the Annotate with Read-Only repositories problems in their cvsweb 2.0.6
> build, which is available at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html

I took a look, and it appears to have the same `cvs annotate' support
that we already have--i.e., support which won't work unless we can
change LockDir.  We don't know how to change LockDir without breaking
the uberbaum repository.

Ian

RE: "Annotate" on GCC's CVSweb isn't working

[Cook, Kelley (R.K.)]

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On Monday, May 12, 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>On Fri, 9 May 2003, Neil Booth wrote:
>>> The useful annotate feature is no longer working on the GCC Projects'
>>> CVSWeb at both
>> Agreed.  It's been this way for roughly 2 months I think.
>>
>> The FSF web site never worked, we've only started failing recently.

>FYI, I had forwarded this to overseers@gcc.gnu.org and Ian had a look: it
>seems this is hard to fix (mostly caused by the uberbaum repository), and
>for now Ian thus disabled the annotate feature.

Since I can't test it, I'm not entirely sure if this will help, but it
appears that the FreeBSD folks seem to developed a workaround for some of
the Annotate with Read-Only repositories problems in their cvsweb 2.0.6
build, which is available at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html

Thanks again,
Kelley Cook

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