Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:10:18 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: zach@uffdaonline.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot write /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags Message-ID: <199901240410.UAA16540@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990123160814.A50957@znh.org> References: <199901240537.FAA03726@netrinsics.com>
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In article <19990123160814.A50957@znh.org>,
Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:37:38AM +0000, Michael Robinson wrote:
> > 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
He's using remote cvs. That line has to be added to the val-tags
file on the server, not on the user's machine. We ran into this once
before. It could fairly be called a bug in CVS.
John
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