git-cvsimport calls rsh for fetching from remote CVSROOT (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/git-cvsimport.perl#n369) if it's not overrided by CVS_RSH, so we need to add net-misc/netkit-rsh to RDEPEND.
Created PR: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/20607
I doubt this is necessary to be a hard dependency when USE="cvs" is set. I used git-cvsimport multiple times without rsh being installed on my system. I suggest to add a conditional pkg_postinst message informing users about possible rsh necessity instead.
(In reply to Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) from comment #2) > I doubt this is necessary to be a hard dependency when USE="cvs" is set. I > used git-cvsimport multiple times without rsh being installed on my system. > > I suggest to add a conditional pkg_postinst message informing users about > possible rsh necessity instead. Please note that rsh invokes only when ':ext:' protocol is used, and as I can see, this invocation was implemented in git starting from initial revision: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=34155390a576d8124e0adc864aaf2f11bbf5168b. Consider it an apparent evidence. I got an error while trying to clone the OpenBSD repo.
> I suggest to add a conditional pkg_postinst message informing users about possible rsh necessity instead. Well, if we consider that RSH is actually dead this might be enough, but error while invoking a tool with default setup looks somewhat `unclear` to me. As an alternative approach, I can suggest adding CVS_RSH="ssh" as a good default to env.d, in addition to the pkg_postinst message.
