# Install cvsync with Homebrew, MacPorts

Portable CVS repository synchronization utility. Version 0.24.20 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-27. Also installable with macports: sudo port install cvsync.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cvsync
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cvsync
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install cvsync
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/cvsync/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cvsync
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.24.20
- **Source summary:** Portable CVS repository synchronization utility
- **Homepage:** <https://www.cvsync.org/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-27T07:08:57Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cvscan (alias)
- cvsup2cvsync (alias)
- cvsync (alias)
- cvsync2cvsup (alias)
- cvsyncd (alias)
- rcscan (alias)
- rcscmp (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.24.20
## Project history and usage

CVSync is a portable utility suite for synchronizing and mirroring CVS repositories, with client, server, scanner, comparison, and CVSup-conversion tools.

### Project history

The official site presents CVSync as a BSD-licensed CVS repository synchronization utility and now points all CVSync materials to GitHub. The project copyright line covers MAEKAWA Masahide from 2003 through 2026.

### Adoption history

CVSync belongs to the era when public CVS mirrors mattered: it offered repository-level synchronization over a dedicated cvsync protocol and included tools for mirror operators who were also dealing with CVSup-style distribution.

### How it is used

Users run cvsync against a cvsync:// host to list or retrieve collections, while cvsyncd serves collections and companion tools scan RCS files, compare repositories, and convert between CVSup and CVSync metadata.

### Why package nerds care

For package archaeology, CVSync is a mirror-maintenance tool: it reflects the operational side of old source distributions, where keeping RCS-backed CVS repositories synchronized was as important as using the version-control client.

### Timeline

- 2003: CVSync documentation and copyright history begin.
- 2003: The ChangeLog records rapid 0.19.x through 0.24.x development.
- The official site lists 0.24.20 as a distribution release and points development activity to GitHub.

### Related projects

- CVSync is related to CVS, RCS repository files, and CVSup-style repository distribution.

### Sources

- <https://www.cvsync.org/>
- <https://github.com/cvsync/cvsync>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cvsync/cvsync/master/doc/ChangeLog.2003>


## Security Notes

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

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - cvsync: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/cvsync/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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