[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS on savannah

[Andreas Schwab]

Rudy Gevaert <address@hidden> writes:

> [I'm currently preparing for exames, so I respond to mail irregular]
>
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:03:11PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
>> However, there seems one (hopefully) minor issue left:
>> 
>>   Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:47:41 +0100
>>   From: Erik Schnetter <address@hidden>
>>   To: address@hidden
>>   Subject: tree-ssa branch on savannah
>> 
>>   I am unable to check out the tree-ssa branch from savannah, while the 
>>   main branch works fine.  I receive the error message
>> 
>>   $ cvs -z9 -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc checkout -P 
>>   - -rtree-ssa-20020619-branch gcc
>>   cvs [server aborted]: cannot write /cvsroot/gcc/CVSROOT/val-tags: 
>>   Permission denied
>> 
>> Would you mind having a look?
>
> The writer error comes because we are currently allowing writing to
> the CVSROOT.  But why should it have to right to val-tags?

Which version of cvs do you use on savannah?  This is supposed to be
fixed long ago:

2001-04-22  Larry Jones  <address@hidden>

        * tag.c (tag_check_valid): Make an unwritable val-tags file a
        warning instead of a fatal error.

Andreas.

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