Help running 'make release' w/ r/o CVSROOT

[Adrian Steinmann]

Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org> replied to Dag-Erling Smorgrav, who wrote:
    > "Scott R. Sewall" <sewall at ix.netcom.com> writes:
    >> cd /usr/release/usr && rm -rf src &&  cvs -R -d /home/ncvs co  -P -r
    >> RELENG_4 src

    >> My CVS repository does not have the file val-tags.  I also don't see
    >> this file on the web interface
    >> to the CVS repository at freebsd.org.  How is this file created?

    > It is created by cvs and updated every time you use a tag with -r or
    > -j which isn't already listed in val-tags.  It's a major PITA, but you
    > can fairly easily disable it by adding a return statement right after
    > the syntax checks in tag_check_valid() (i.e. somewhere around line
    > 1212) in src/contrib/cvs/src/tag.c.

  In this particular case, creating the val-tags file with the following
  contents should make cvs happy again:

  RELENG_4 y

or, applying this patch to usr/src/contrib/cvs/src/tag.c mentioned in
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42726

RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/contrib/cvs/src/tag.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.6.2.5
diff -u -r1.1.1.6.2.5 tag.c
--- usr/src/contrib/cvs/src/tag.c	21 Jan 2003 22:26:46 -0000	1.1.1.6.2.5
+++ usr/src/contrib/cvs/src/tag.c	5 Sep 2003 06:48:28 -0000
@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@
 	/* The tags is valid but not mentioned in val-tags.  Add it.  */
 	datum value;

-	if (noexec || nowrite)
+	if (noexec || nowrite || readonlyfs)
 	{
 	    if (db != NULL)
 		dbm_close (db);

which makes the cvs -R option *really* readonly, even when val-tags
is missing.

Adrian