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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
Subject: Re: gnu/42726 (Was: cvs checkout bug existing val-tags and readonlyfs)
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/42726; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
To: Larry Jones <lawrence.jones@eds.com>
Cc: eugen@grosbein.pp.ru, asmodai@wxs.nl, bug-cvs@gnu.org,
	bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gnu/42726 (Was: cvs checkout bug existing val-tags and readonlyfs)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:57:29 +0800

 Larry Jones wrote:
 
 > > One more addition: if I run 'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' instead of
 > > 'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' I see it still tries to create lock
 > > in the repository and fails due to 'Permission denied'.
 > [...]
 > > instead of 'cvs -R --allow-root=/home/ncvs'.
 > 
 > And your point is?  You can use LockDir= in CVSROOT/config to put the
 > lock files somewhere other than in the repository. 
 
 Yes, when it's my repository. And no, when it's just read-only mirror.
 
 > I have no idea what
 > -R does since that's not in standard CVS.
 
 Well, you are right, I need to contact FreeBSD team for that.
 
 > You can also specify the
 > global -n option to CVS in most cases to avoid creating lock files at
 > all.
 
 That doesn't work at server side (server says 'there is no version here; ...')
 and it doesn't change anything at client side (still says 'Protocol error...')
 when using cvs -R.
 
 So, thank you, Larry, for your cooperation. 
 Now I see this is FreeBSD-specific problem.
 
 Eugene Grosbein

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