From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 30 22:24:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19539 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:24:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19529 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA03547; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:31:51 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199812010631.RAA03547@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: ports tree FROZEN now In-Reply-To: <199812010613.WAA25515@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Nov 30, 98 10:13:12 pm" To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:31:50 +1100 (EST) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, committers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Archie Cobbs wrote: > Satoshi Asami writes: > > The ports tree is in the pre-release "freeze" state now. From now > > until the final release of 2.2.8, all the commits to the ports tree > > has to be approved by me. > > Hmm.. it would be nice if it were possible to "lock" a subtree of > the CVS repository, perhaps by sticking a file ".cvs-lock" or > something directly in the corresponding repository directory.. > then CVS could check for this file and, if found, return an > error and print out the file when a commit was attempted.. > > Thoughts? How would you allow authorised people to commit? No point locking out the release engineer/s too. 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message