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Date:      Fri, 07 Aug 1998 21:10:06 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        CHOI Junho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to 'make release' using anonCVS? 
Message-ID:  <199808071910.VAA24245@gratis.grondar.za>

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John Polstra wrote:
> Great!  Either (a) the anoncvs user needs to be able to update
> ${CVSROOT}/CVSROOT/val-tags, or (b) the contents of the file need
> to be fixed manually.

[....snip....]

> Pardon my vagueness in the following, but I know virtually nothing
> about how anoncvs works.

... no problem ...

> For (a), first try to determine whether anoncvs has write permissions

This will not work. Anoncvs is defined as "the most malicious user
you can think of, but are still prepared to allow read-only access
to".

> If it looks like anoncvs is not supposed to write in any
> directories, then proceed to plan (b).

Ahaah!

> (b) is just a work-around, but it's simple.  Edit the val-tags file,
> and you'll understand its format right away.  Add a new entry for
> RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE and for any other valid tags that you think
> people might need.  Be sure you don't add any tags that don't actually
> exist, though.  Once the entries are in place, anoncvs shouldn't need
> to update the file, and the bug will be circumvented.

Bingo!

M
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