Usually, CVS is installed from prebuilt binaries
from
<a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com"><code>http://www.sunfreeware.com</code></a>
<br>Or, if there is a security problem
with CVS, you can install by hand:
<ol>
<li> Obtain the latest source from
<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/"><code>http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/</code></a>
and place it in <code>/export/home/tools/downloads</code>
<li> 
<pre>
cd /export/home/tools
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.22/cvs-1.11.22.tar.gz
tar -zxf downloads/cvs-1.11.22.tar.gz
cd cvs-1.11.22
./configure
make >& make.out &
</pre>
<li> Before installing the new version, check to see
if there is a version installed as a package.  
<br>If
<pre>
pkginfo | grep cvs
</pre>
Returns
<pre>
application SMCcvs         cvs
</pre>
Then do 
<pre>
pkgrm SMCcvs
</pre>
<li>
Run 
<pre>
make install
</pre>
<li> The <code>/usr/local/bin/cvs</code>
binary is about 3Mb in size, so run
<pre>
/usr/ccs/bin/strip /usr/local/bin/cvs
</pre>
to reduce it to about 600K.
</ol>

Note that the cvs binary is copied in two locations
so that it can be run suid.  For details, see
<a href="http://www.gigascale.org/infrax/faq/95.html">http://www.gigascale.org/infrax/faq/95.html</a>
<p>Also, be sure to update
<code>/usr/slocal/cvsusers/bin/cvs</code> on giga<b>source</b>
<p>On giga<b>source</b>, be sure to update the individual
copies of cvs that the cvs users have in their directories:
<dl><dd>
<pre>
cd /export/home
ls -1 */bin/cvs > /tmp/f
awk '{print "cp /usr/local/bin/cvs", $1}' /tmp/f > /tmp/f2
</pre>
verify that /tmp/f2 has lines like:
<pre>
cp /usr/local/bin/cvs acataldo/bin/cvs
</pre>
and then run
<pre>
sh -x /tmp/f2
</pre>
and verify the results with
<pre>
ls -l */bin/cvs
</pre>
</dd></dl>
<h2>pserver</h2>
After upgrading cvs, be sure that pserver is working.
<p>The easiest way to do this is to check out
the <code>ptII</code> repository using pserver, see
<a href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptexternal/"><code>http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptexternal/</code></a>.
where basically you do
<pre>
cd <i>c:/directoryofyourchoice</i>
cvs -d :pserver:anon@source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs/cvsanon login
# No password needed, hit enter
cvs -d :pserver:anon@source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs/cvsanon co ptII
</pre>

<h2><a name="loginfo">CVSROOT/loginfo</a></h2>
Make syntax changes to <code>CVSROOT/loginfo</code> that
appear to be necessary as of version 1.11.5:
The quotes used to surround the argument to the <code>-s</code>
option in all the <code>mailx</code> commands need to be
escaped by preceding each one with a back-slash.
Not doing this causes the filenames of files being committed to be taken as email addresses for the notifications to be
sent to.
(Make these changes by checking out <code>CVSROOT</code>
<pre>
cvs co CVSROOT
</pre>
editing <code>loginfo</code> and committing the change.)
<p>
See <a href="http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/dopsysadmin/faq/11.html">How do I  set up CVS mail?</a>