From kde-devel  Tue Jul 09 21:18:22 2002
From: Karl Robillard <karl-robillard () cox ! net>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 21:18:22 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Documentation and CVS access
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Here are some inconveniences I encountered as I was going about obtaining=
 CVS=20
access to the KDE repository.

It was mentioned that I should read the Developer's HOWTO. From=20
http://developer.kde.org/ there is a link to 'HOWTOs and FAQs'.  However,=
 the=20
Developer's HOWTO is not listed there, but rather on the Tutorials page.

It took me a while to find out to encrypt my CVS password since this is=20
documented in the section called "Mailing lists" and I was foolishly look=
ing=20
in the "2. KDE CVS" chapter of the Developer's HOWTO.

So finally I found this: perl -e print\ crypt\('passwd','sa'\)\.\"\\n\"
But when I tried to encrypt my password it did not work.  I played with i=
t a=20
bit and found these behaviors:

  1. It doesn't seem to work with passwords starting with a number.
    Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "2passwd"

  2. It doesn't work when the two random characters are 'qq' or 'qw'.
    Can't find string terminator ")" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

Are these things the perl command should handle?
I'm thinking the CVS access documentation should be moved to a new sectio=
n in=20
the HOWTO (2.2 Gaining Access), and the invalid conditions noted.  I woul=
d be=20
happy to change the docs in CVS.


-Karl
 
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