# Fossil remote

Using the fossil  docs [0] I managed  to set up a fossil  server on my
VPS.

First I updated my fossil instances on Debian, macOS and NetBSD to the
most  recent 2.10  version. On  NetBSD  (i.e. here  on SDF)  I had  to
compile it from the sources, but then I could connect over https to my
remote repo on the VPS.

On  macOS brew  cleanup  failed as  after the  update  to Catalina  it
reported that  it had no  permissons on  a couple of  .DS_Store files.
I  simply  deleted those  and  after  that  I  could upgrade  my  brew
installation of fossil.

As I am only an arpa user, I do not have access to git on SDF, but now
fossil gives me the opportunity to put my ksh scripts and the contents
of  this gopher  hole  under  fossil version  management  and do  some
updates outside of SDF, too.

Fossil can export to git, so that you can have a git mirror (on Github
or anywhere else) of your repo. I need to check that out, too.

[0] https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/server/any/scgi.md