cvs question?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-03-25 09:07, Osmany Guirola Cruz <osmany.guirola at cigb.edu.cu> wrote:
> Hi again
>
> The option -R does not work :-(
> i do  this
> #setenv CVSROOT freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs
> #cvs -R co -rRELENG_5 src
> and get this
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags:
> Permission denied
> and if i do
> #socksify cvs -R co src
> WORKS PERFECTLY
>
> What can i do?

% Not sure.  I tried using a tag too and it fails to work :-(
%
% $ cvs -d freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co -l -r RELENG_5 src/bin/cat
% cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied
%
% $ cvs -d freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co -r RELENG_5 src/bin/cat
% cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied
%
% $ cvs -R -d freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co -r RELENG_5 src/bin/cat
% cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied
%
% $ cvs -R -d freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src/bin/cat
% U src/bin/cat/Makefile
% U src/bin/cat/cat.1
% U src/bin/cat/cat.c
%
% $ cd src/bin/cat
% $ cvs -R -d freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs up -APd -r RELENG_5
% cvs [update aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied

I vaguely remember a problem report about val-tags, so I checked the history
of the CVS version we have in the tree.  Dag-Erling Smorgrav has fixed a bug
related to this in revision 1.2 of the file: src/contrib/cvs/src/tag.c.

This seems to be a server issue.  If the server running at anoncvs.freebsd.org
doesn't have the fix of DES, you can try a different server I guess.  I'll let
DES know about this and see if the fix has been backported to non-CURRENT
FreeBSD versions.

- Giorgos