Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:46:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com> To: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Skytt=E4?= <scop@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Read-only access to repository w/ cvsweb 2.0.5? Message-ID: <01KKP908BS6S000BQB@tmk.com> In-Reply-To: "Your message dated Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:31:53 %2B0300" <1028028713.1921.86.camel@bobcat.ods.org> References: <01KKP19SBHES000BQB@tmk.com> <01KKP19SBHES000BQB@tmk.com>
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> Terry, this looks like a configuration problem to me. FreeBSD-CVSweb
> defaults to using the "-l" option of cvs(1), which should skip any
> logging to the history file, so your cvsweb user wouldn't need even read
> access to CVSROOT/history. Please verify that you have set up your
> cvsweb.cgi to use the new cvsweb.conf (with your possible
> customizations) that comes with FreeBSD-CVSweb. See @cvs_options in
> cvsweb.conf.
>
> Can you checkout from a shell as the www user using the -l option, ie:
>
> cvs -l checkout some/file
That gives me the same error. I'm using cvs 1.10.3, and in its src/main.c
I see:
(void) strcat (path, "/");
(void) strcat (path, CVSROOTADM_HISTORY);
if (isfile (path) && !isaccessible (path, R_OK | W_OK))
{
save_errno = errno;
error (0, 0, "Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file");
error (1, save_errno, "%s", path);
}
free (path);
which looks like it has a hard-coded requirement that the history file be
writable, regardless of whether the -l command is given or not.
I found this comment in the cvs-1.11 ChangeLog file:
2000-02-21 Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
* main.c (main): still check for repository, but not history file
(correction to 2000-02-18 change -- that's what I get for
believing the comment rather than the code).
I applied that change and things got somewhat better - the "download"
link gives me the correct data, but the Revision: x.y link brings up a
mostly blank screen with "Revision , Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 UTC (32 years, 7
months ago) by " text.
I suspect this means that there are other version incompatibilities between
my installed CVS and the one that cvsweb expects.
I then built the full cvs 1.11 and that didn't change the output. Next, I
tried 1.11.2 and that finally is giving me proper output.
So, it looks like cvsweb 2.0.5 requires cvs 1.11.2. Perhaps that could get
added to the release notes?
> Another thing you could check is if your platform's cvs(1) command has
> the "-R" option for read-only repository access. If it does, please try
> adding that manually to @cvs_options in cvsweb.conf and send me the
> output of "uname" on your machine so I can make it default on it.
Unfortunatly, it doesn't. For that matter, neither does the latest cvs
1.11.2. Where can I find a distribution of the flavor that understands "-R"?
> Yet another option (untested, not recommended _at_all_) could be to hack
> cvsweb.cgi to use the co(1) command of rcs, instead of "cvs co" on
> checkouts.
I tried that earlier on, but that caused other problems (I would have
needed to rewrite a bit of the CVS/RCS header parsing to deal with the
different output format).
Terry Kennedy http://www.tmk.com
terry@tmk.com New York, NY USA
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