Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS read access to local FreeBSD repository? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031737350.19892-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20000503200250.W56426@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Doug Barton:
>
> > > naddy@fettuccini[~] cvs -Rd /home/ncvs/FreeBSD co -rRELEASE_3_2_0 mpg123
> > > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/FreeBSD/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied
> >
> > Actually, you have two problems here. First, if you take a look in that
> > file, you will see entries like this:
>
> Taking a look, I notice that this file doesn't exist. Well, it did
> exist, but I just deleted it and re-synced the repository tree by
> cvsup. No CVSROOT/val-tags. Apparently this file was created locally.
It's a CVS thing.
> > Add the following as root:
> > RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE y
>
> I'm somewhat confused that I should need to manually declare all
> the tags that are in use throughout the repository. That doesn't
> make sense.
You don't, if you're checking the files out as root.
> > The tag you specified does not exist.
>
> CVSweb says otherwise. This tag does exist in the ports tree,
Missed that bit, sorry.
Doug
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