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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: misc/128683: CVS repo fails to check out because of permission
	denied error
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The following reply was made to PR misc/128683; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Code Monkey <codemonkey49@earthlink.net>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/128683: CVS repo fails to check out because of permission denied error
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:52:44 +0200

 On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:28:37 GMT, Code Monkey <codemonkey49@earthlink.net> wrote:
 > Running the following on my side:
 >
 > cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs checkout -r RELENG_5_4 src
 >
 > Error is:
 >
 > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied
 >
 > Not a CVS expert but this sounds like a problem on the server, and it
 > happens from linux client or freebsd.
 
 Can you try checking out with the -R option?
 
     export CVSROOT='freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs'
     cvs -R co -r RELENG_5_4 src
 
 The -R option sets the client in `read only' mode, so that it can check
 out from CD-ROMs and other read-only media.  I don't remember off the
 top of my head if this works in `pserver' mode too, when the cvs(1)
 utility tried to connect to remote servers, but it's worth trying.