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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:31:08 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
To:        garyj@jennejohn.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules ports/editors Makefile ports/editors/xemacs-devel Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-plist ports/editors/xemacs-devel/files patch-af patch-aj xemacs21.sh 
Message-ID:  <573.1004041868@winston.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>  of "Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:39:49 %2B0200." <200110251839.f9PIdoe39013@peedub.muc.de> 

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> Actually, I just figured out why I couldn't log into beast. But 
> when I try to ``cvs co'' the xemacs-devel port on beast I get:
> 
> gj:beast:work:bash:5> cvs co xemacs-devel
> cvs checkout: Updating xemacs-devel
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for 
> `/home/ncvs/ports/editors/xemacs-devel' 

That's because CVS tries to write lock files in the repository by
default and beast mounts the repo over NFS.  Do this is cvs -R co xemacs-devel
and things will work (-R means "read only repository").

- Jordan

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