Package cvs: Information

    Source package: cvs
    Version: 1.11.23-alt5
    Build time:  Dec 6, 2011, 12:38 AM
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    License: GPLv2+
    Summary: A version control system
    Description: 
    CVS means Concurrent Version System; it is a version control
    system which can record the history of your files (usually,
    but not always, source code).  CVS only stores the differences
    between versions, instead of every version of every file
    you've ever created.  CVS also keeps a log of who, when and
    why changes occurred, among other aspects.
    
    CVS is very helpful for managing releases and controlling
    the concurrent editing of source files among multiple
    authors.  Instead of providing version control for a
    collection of files in a single directory, CVS provides
    version control for a hierarchical collection of
    directories consisting of revision controlled files.
    
    These directories and files can then be combined together
    to form a software release.

    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    cvs (x86_64, i586)
    cvs-contrib (noarch)
    cvs-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)
    cvs-doc (noarch)
    cvs-pserver (noarch)

    Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin

    List of contributors:
    Dmitry V. Levin


      1. groupdel-cvsadmin
      2. zlib-devel

    Last changed


    Dec. 5, 2011 Dmitry V. Levin 1.11.23-alt5
    - Worked around timestamp issues in test suite.
    Dec. 3, 2010 Dmitry V. Levin 1.11.23-alt4
    - Applied upstream fix to an array index error, leading to a heap-based
      buffer overflow, found in the way CVS applied certain delta fragment
      changes from input files in the RCS (Revision Control System) file
      format.  If an attacker in control of a CVS repository stored a
      specially-crafted RCS file in that repository, this could result in
      arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the CVS server process
      on the system hosting the CVS repository when a remote user eventually
      checks out a revision of the affected file.
      Special thanks to Owl for the description.
      (CVE-2010-3846; closes: #24468).
    Sept. 9, 2009 Dmitry V. Levin 1.11.23-alt3
    - Moved "make check" to %check section.