From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 30 22:48:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21563 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:48:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (sj-dsl-9-129-138.dspeed.net [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21556 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:48:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05009; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:47:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199812010647.WAA05009@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Birrell cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), asami@cs.berkeley.edu, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports tree FROZEN now In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 17:31:50 +1100." <199812010631.RAA03547@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:47:48 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Override lock privilige? Cheers, Amancio > Archie Cobbs wrote: > > Satoshi Asami writes: > > > The ports tree is in the pre-release "freeze" state now. From now > > > until the final release of 2.2.8, all the commits to the ports tree > > > has to be approved by me. > > > > Hmm.. it would be nice if it were possible to "lock" a subtree of > > the CVS repository, perhaps by sticking a file ".cvs-lock" or > > something directly in the corresponding repository directory.. > > then CVS could check for this file and, if found, return an > > error and print out the file when a commit was attempted.. > > > > Thoughts? > > How would you allow authorised people to commit? No point locking > out the release engineer/s too. 8-) > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message