# 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