Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:15:04 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD CVS Repository Message-ID: <3BDF6CB8.2C712470@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <200110301358.f9UDwdY11162@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <20011030105408.A49669@svzserv.kemerovo.su>, Eugene Grosbein > writes: > > Hi! > > > > I run local mirror of FreeBSD CVS Repository using cvsup-mirror > > and keep it in sync. Generally, I use it to update my servers > > but sometimes I dig in it for education purposes :) > > Definitly, I do not want to touch it in any way, so Repo is owned by root > > and I play with it as non-root. > > > > Yesterday I need to look what changes was done to pppd after import > > of 2.3.5 (it runs perfectly for me but is outdated and some > > features are missing, f.e. it demands to work on pty only). > > So I type: > > > > cvs -R -d /home/ncvs checkout -r ppp_2_3_5 src/usr.sbin/pppd > > > > And I get an error message: > > > > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write to /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: > > Permission denied. > > > > It is right, I do not have rights to write to /home/ncvs and I definitly > > not want cvs do that. Why it insists to write to the Repo even > > it's in read-only mode? > > > > My system is FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE with stock cvs 1.10.7 > > How can I resolve this without giving users write access to the Repo? > > I remember it did not want such access some time ago. > > Only val-tags needs to be world writable in order to record tags used > for checkout, however if that is distasteful, you can add CVS tags to > this file yourself without giving others write privilege to the file, > e.g., > > ppp_2_3_5 y I wonder why CVS needs to write to the Repo at all when I used rean-only mode (-R)? What it the repo is mounted read-only itself? Consider using CD-ROM. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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