User question (not mirroring certain files)

[Fr?d?ric L . W . Meunier]

Hi. I mirror various projects with CVS to, among others, save
bandwitch and report problems, and remove all
po/*.{gmo,mo,po}. The problem is that cvs checkout or update
(with -d and CVS/Entries removed) will mirror them again and
consume time.

To not write the files I chmod the directory with -w. But:

? po
cvs update: move away po/.cvsignore; it is in the way
C po/.cvsignore
cvs update: cannot write po/ChangeLog: Permission denied
cvs update: move away po/POTFILES.in; it is in the way
C po/POTFILES.in
cvs update: move away po/README.tools; it is in the way
C po/README.tools
cvs update: cannot write po/az.po: Permission denied

Notice I removed po/az.po but not the other files. The new
problem is that it's mirroring the file (wastes a lot of
time), just not writing it in po/.

If I chmod the directory with -rwx if does what I expect, but
cvs aborts:

cvs [update aborted]: could not chdir to po: Permission denied

I'm not a programmer. Can you help me to not let cvs abort
when it can't chdir ? Or let me know if there's a better way
to achieve that.

TIA.

-- 
address@hidden, {dyndns.}org} Tel: 55-21-2717-2399 (Niter?i-RJ BR)