From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 17:38:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC6437BECC for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 17:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA19901; Wed, 3 May 2000 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS read access to local FreeBSD repository? In-Reply-To: <20000503200250.W56426@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message