Re: [Savannah-hackers] Minor problem with giFTcurs CVS

[Göran Weinholt]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:21:38AM -0400, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:01:31PM +0200, G?ran Weinholt wrote:
> > It seems I can't checkout giFTcurs by tag:
> > 
> > $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/giftcurs
> > $ cvs -z3 co -r Release-0_6_0 giFTcurs
> > cvs [server aborted]: cannot write /cvsroot/giftcurs/CVSROOT/val-tags: 
> > Permission denied
> > 
> > Could you please fix this? I use this feature in my release scripts,
> > among other things.
> 
> 
> [/cvsroot/giftcurs/CVSROOT]# cat val-tags

[...output showing no Release-0_6_0...]

> is the contents of that file.  I can checkout Release-0_5_7. also it
> seems normal that the anoncvs user doesn't have access to write to
> that file.  Don't it.  Are you sure that you have s release 0.6.0?

It does seem normal that it can't write to it. What doesn't seem normal
is that it's missing the Release-0_6_0 tag. I can assure you that there
is a Release-0_6_0 tag:

address@hidden:~/giFTcurs$ cvs log NEWS | grep Release | head -n 3
        Release-0_6_0: 1.56
        Release-0_5_7: 1.49
        Release-0_5_6: 1.46

> I also found this in the CVS handbook:

[...info about a bug in CVS...]

Hopefully it only tries to write to val-tags if it can't find the
tag in it, and that seems to be what is happening since it works with
Release-0_5_7.

> Let us first determine if you have such a tag.

I tagged the sources in the same way I always tag them, with "cvs tag
Release-0_6_0". I don't know why it should have done anything different
this time.

Regards,

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