From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 6:33:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B830537C0AC for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 06:33:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12nLkp-0005EG-00; Thu, 04 May 2000 15:33:23 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:33:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS read access to local FreeBSD repository? Message-ID: <20000504153323.D19808@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000503165943.A18263@fettuccini.unix-ag.uni-kl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000503165943.A18263@fettuccini.unix-ag.uni-kl.de>; from naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 04:59:43PM +0200 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-05-03 (16:59), Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I have a local copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository which I use for > cvsup checkouts to multiple machines and CVSweb browsing. > > How can I, as a nonpriviledged user without write access to the > repository, extract certain revisions? Access to HEAD works fine, > but as soon as I specify "-r" I get errors such as this: > > 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 It's a CVS ugly. There's a few-line patch to cvs/tags.c to fix it, but it'd take it off the vendor branch. Maybe it would be worth it. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message