Urgent: Cvs download has changed unexpectedly

[Dave Collier-Brown]

  For that last few years, I've been using a makefile
to download and build samba, based on the instructions
in http://us1.samba.org/samba/cvs.html
  These are the same instructions that we put in "Using Samba",
and are unchanged in the second edition.

  Alas, they now only cause diagnostics, at least three of which
are bogus!

  1) If I run "cvs update -d :pserver:cvs at cvs.samba.org:/cvsroot -P"
it returns "No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option",
which, you understand, I did (;-))
  2) Similarly, setting CVSROOT to :pserver:cvs at cvs.samba.org:/cvsroot
just triggers "existing repository /cvsroot/./samba does not match
/cvsroot/samba", which is only true of strings: the directory
cvsroot/./samba and cvsroot/samba are the same directory.
  3) Running "cvs -d :pserver:cvs at cvs.samba.org:/cvsroot co -r HEAD 
samba" draws the diagnostic "protocol error: is not absolute".
The same is true if I remove the "-r HEAD".
  4) Running "cvs -z5 -d :pserver:cvs at cvs.samba.org:/cvsroot/. co 
samba" after running cvs -d :pserver:cvs at cvs.samba.org:/cvsroot login
reports "cvs checkout: cannot find password", which is trivially false.
  Altogether something of a dog's breakfast.

  I suspect something has changed in the server-side configuration:
can someone have a look and see if they can make the previous
commands work once more?  It's genuinely hard to recall all those
books to amend them (;-))

--dave
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