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Date:      Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:38:16 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Osmany Guirola Cruz <osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs question?
Message-ID:  <20050324233816.GA21885@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <4242F221.4080902@cigb.edu.cu>
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On 2005-03-24 17:00, Osmany Guirola Cruz <osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu> wrote:
> Hi people
>
> I am learning in the use of cvs for sync my src and ports i use this
> command line and works perfectly
>
> # cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
>
> but this line update my source tree with the current version 6.0

True.

> but i don't want this version then i do this
>
> # cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co -rRELENG_5 src
>
> and get this error
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags:
> Permission denied

Use the -R option of cvs (read-only repository):

    # CVSROOT='freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs'
    # export CVSROOT
    # cvs -R co -rRELENG_5 src



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