Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:33:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS read access to local FreeBSD repository? Message-ID: <20000504153323.D19808@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000503165943.A18263@fettuccini.unix-ag.uni-kl.de>; from naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 04:59:43PM %2B0200 References: <20000503165943.A18263@fettuccini.unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
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On Wed 2000-05-03 (16:59), Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I have a local copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository which I use for > cvsup checkouts to multiple machines and CVSweb browsing. > > How can I, as a nonpriviledged user without write access to the > repository, extract certain revisions? Access to HEAD works fine, > but as soon as I specify "-r" I get errors such as this: > > naddy@fettuccini[~] cvs -Rd /home/ncvs/FreeBSD co -rRELEASE_3_2_0 mpg123 > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/FreeBSD/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied It's a CVS ugly. There's a few-line patch to cvs/tags.c to fix it, but it'd take it off the vendor branch. Maybe it would be worth it. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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