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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:31:34 GMT
From:      Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, robinson@netrinsics.com, zach@uffdaonline.net
Subject:   Re: cannot write /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags
Message-ID:  <199901240631.GAA04018@netrinsics.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990123160814.A50957@znh.org>

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Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:37:38AM +0000, Michael Robinson wrote:
>> Can someone explain why, when I use: cvs co -rRELENG_2_2 sys
>> I get:
>>   cvs server: Updating sys
>
>> But when I use: cvs co -rRELENG_3 sys
>> I get:
>>   cvs [server aborted]: cannot write /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied
>
>This can probably be fixed by typing:
>
>chmod +w /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags
>
>If that doesn't work, figure out a way to manually edit /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags
>and append this line:
>
>RELENG_3 y

I tried this, and it doesn't work.  The RELENG_2_2 tag works without any
/cvs/CVSROOT directory at all.  The RELENG_3 tag fails with a message "server
aborted".  Thus I suspect some problem on the server side (which I may be
causing myself, for all I know).

	-Michael Robinson


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