# cvs mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cvs in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cvs
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cvs
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install cvs
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: devel/cvs/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add cvs
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cvs from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install cvs
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: cvs from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install cvs
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cvs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cvs
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cv/cvs/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S cvs
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: cvs from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install cvs
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cvs from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/cvs
```

  Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cvs.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cvs
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.12.13
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Version control system
- **Homepage:** <https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-19T12:30:04-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cvs (Alias)
- cvsbug (Alias)
- rcs2log (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.12.13
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, is one of the classic networked version-control tools: it records source-file history in RCS-style files while adding shared repositories, remote clients, modules, branches, and multi-developer workflows.

### Projektgeschichte

The official CVS manual traces the project back to shell scripts by Dick Grune posted to comp.sources.unix in July 1986, then to Brian Berliner's April 1989 design and implementation, with Jeff Polk later helping shape module and vendor-branch support.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The CVS project page describes CVS as a production-quality system used around the world, including by many free software projects. That combination of anonymous read-only access, central repositories, and Unix-friendly command-line operation made it a normal part of open-source development before distributed systems became dominant.

### Wie es verwendet wird

CVS users check out working directories, edit locally, then update, diff, commit, tag, branch, merge, import vendor drops, and inspect history through the cvs command. Administrators maintain repository-side CVSROOT files for policy, logging, access, and server behavior.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, CVS matters both as a historical dependency and as an archival interface: many older upstreams and import histories were built around CVS modules, RCS files, vendor branches, and anonymous pserver checkouts.

### Zeitleiste

- 1986: Dick Grune posts CVS shell scripts to comp.sources.unix.
- 1989: Brian Berliner designs and codes CVS.
- 1990s-2000s: CVS becomes a common free-software source-control system.
- 2019: The nongnu.org CVS project page remains the official project and documentation hub.

### Related projects

- CVS builds on RCS file storage and influenced later centralized version-control workflows; CVS Utilities and CVSync are companion tools for working copies and repository mirroring.

### Quellen

- <https://www.gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/cvs/cvs.html>
- <https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.cvsrc, $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.cvspass, $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - cvs - 2:1.12.13+real-30: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: cvs from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Concurrent Versions System | http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
- Nix - cvs: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cv/cvs/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - cvs - 2:1.12.13+real-30build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cvs from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Concurrent Versions System | http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
- apk - cvs - 1.12.13-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cvs from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Concurrent Versions System | https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
- apk - cvs-doc - 1.12.13-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cvs-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Concurrent Versions System (documentation) | https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
- dnf - cvs - 1.11.23-78.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cvs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Concurrent Versions System | https://cvs.nongnu.org/
- dnf - cvs-contrib - 1.11.23-78.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cvs-contrib from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Unsupported contributions collected by CVS developers | https://cvs.nongnu.org/
- dnf - cvs-doc - 1.11.23-78.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cvs-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Additional documentation for Concurrent Versions System | https://cvs.nongnu.org/
- pacman - cvs - 1.11.23-16: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: cvs from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Source control | https://cvs.nongnu.org/
- zypper - cvs - 1.12.13-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cvs from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Concurrent Versions System | https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
- zypper - cvs-doc - 1.12.13-5.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cvs-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Info pages and Open Source Development with CVS, 2nd Edition Book | https://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
- MacPorts - cvs: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/cvs/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/cvs: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cvs.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cvs.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cvs.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph