whatis CVS

[powerdomein]

Guys,

I have just installed a tool
yum install cvs

But i dont know wat CVS is.. I read, it keeps your server up-to date but..

Can someone tell what CVS does and how to use it?

 

[X-Hosted]

Maybe this is interesting: http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

Introduction to CVS
Introduction to CVS

CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages.

 

[nobaloney]

The CVS man page can be found here.

CVS will NOT keep your system up to date. Keeping your system up to date is OS distribution dependent and you haven't said which OS distribution you use. If it's a yum-based distribution (it appears to be) you can probably automate yum to keep much of your system up-to-date, and even create scripts to run customapache automatically on some kind of schedule. Perhaps even check for updates to other programs and automate updating them as well.

You should never install a package if you don't know what it does.

What if someone tells you to install the kill-everything package? You wouldn't install that, would you ?

Jeff