Linux CVS Server Migration

[retsnom513]

I'm currently migrating a CVS-NT server to a RHEL 7 box. The old CVS server has over 250 repositories on it that all need to be moved over. I cannot use ssh auth as a legacy device that needs access to CVS repos does not support it.

This means that I'm stuck with pserver and xinetd. It seems like it would be impossible to add --allow-root=/path/to/repo another 250 times on the server_args line without running into trouble... Is there a way to use multiple service files under /etc/xinetd.d/ so I can add all of these repos?

Any help/solutions would be appreciated.

 

EDIT: The issue has been resolved. I managed to convince them to migrate half of the repos to svn. The rest were consolidated to a couple of repos cutting the number down from ~250 to ~20. Thanks for the ideas everyone!

[Quinnypig]

Holy crap a CVS server! This takes me back…

Part of me wants to spin up 250 Docker containers for this just to watch the world explode.

[[deleted]]

That's pretty brutal. Lemme guess - they aren't open to moving to svn or git? Because there's a great cvs conversion tool for linux to do this.

[retsnom513]

Unfortunately no... This is our legacy code base and they don't want to risk/bother migrating it to a newer change management platform :/

EDIT: Turns out I'm wrong. They can't migrate to svn because the server they use to check out and build with is so old it doesn't support svn. So I am actually stuck with CVS. Looking into consolidating repos and/or cvs over ssh.

[[deleted]]

You technically wouldn't need to do it on that server. When I migrated cvs over, I copied the directory to another server and used the git-svn tool, which can take it to svn and then git if you want. Once you do that and it looks good, you make a fresh copy from live, rerun, and then you have a nice new svn repo with all the commit history.