[linux-audio-dev] [OT] sourceforge cvs non-interactively?

[Christian Henz]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:04:02PM -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On 8/24/05, Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia at nic.funet.fi> wrote:
>  
> > Hello. Could anyone figure out how to get sourceforge cvs
> > non-interactively? I could not figure out how I could
> > give the empty password to the script. The cvs login
> > always seem to ask the password interactively. The cvs co
> > does not work without cvs login.
> > 
> > cvs manual says how to do it, but it does not work for
> > some reason. My mistage?
> > 
> > I just want archive a plenty of projects automatically.
> > The cvsroot files are rarely updated at sourceforge,
> > and the cvsroot file downloading is too often interrupted
> > by their server.
> 
> I think you can do it by setting up a ssh key, but I'm not sure of the details.
> 

But that will only work for projects where you have "Developer" status, otherwise you are stuck with anonymous CVS...

cheers,
Christian