[arch-dev-public] cvs diff on old repos
dmcgee@dublin ~/projects/repos/core/base/pacman $ cvs diff cvs diff: failed to create lock directory for `/home/cvs-core/core/base/pacman' (/home/cvs-core/core/base/pacman/#cvs.lock): Permission denied cvs diff: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvs-core/core/base/pacman' cvs [diff aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Well this sucks. It would be great if I could tell which packages of mine had local changes that I need to copy over into new SVN checkouts. Same holds true for extra too. -Dan
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Well this sucks. It would be great if I could tell which packages of mine had local changes that I need to copy over into new SVN checkouts. Same holds true for extra too.
That's the second time I saw a "well this sucks" from you... you know this can be fixed, right?
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Well this sucks. It would be great if I could tell which packages of mine had local changes that I need to copy over into new SVN checkouts. Same holds true for extra too.
That's the second time I saw a "well this sucks" from you... you know this can be fixed, right?
Fixed, I think - let me know.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Well this sucks. It would be great if I could tell which packages of mine had local changes that I need to copy over into new SVN checkouts. Same holds true for extra too.
That's the second time I saw a "well this sucks" from you... you know this can be fixed, right?
Fixed, I think - let me know.
Still getting the error, hmm. -Dan
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Well this sucks. It would be great if I could tell which packages of mine had local changes that I need to copy over into new SVN checkouts. Same holds true for extra too.
That's the second time I saw a "well this sucks" from you... you know this can be fixed, right?
Fixed, I think - let me know.
Still getting the error, hmm.
The exact same error? Can you make sure you have write access to the CVSROOT dir of that repo? Just try touching a file or something? Should be all you need
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Well this sucks. It would be great if I could tell which packages of mine had local changes that I need to copy over into new SVN checkouts. Same holds true for extra too.
That's the second time I saw a "well this sucks" from you... you know this can be fixed, right?
Fixed, I think - let me know.
Still getting the error, hmm.
The exact same error? Can you make sure you have write access to the CVSROOT dir of that repo? Just try touching a file or something? Should be all you need
Nobody has write permissions to /home/cvs-extra: $ cd /home/cvs-extra $ ls CVSROOT extra cvsprep $ touch test touch: cannot touch `test': Permission denied $ ls -ld . dr-xr-sr-x 4 root cvs-extra 4096 2008-04-01 05:30 . $ groups users ftp-arch ftp-extra cvs-arch cvs-extra abs-git $ cd .. $ ls -ld cvs-* drwxrwsr-x 4 root cvs-arch 4096 2008-02-10 01:49 cvs-arch drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-04-03 16:37 cvs-community dr-xr-sr-x 4 root cvs-extra 4096 2008-04-01 05:28 cvs-core dr-xr-sr-x 4 root cvs-extra 4096 2008-04-01 05:30 cvs-extra drwxrwsr-x 4 root cvs-extra 4096 2007-06-29 14:36 cvs-extra-old dr-xr-sr-x 4 root cvs-extra 4096 2003-11-14 18:07 cvs-unstable Only cvs-extra-old has write permissions allowed to anyone
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
The exact same error? Can you make sure you have write access to the CVSROOT dir of that repo? Just try touching a file or something? Should be all you need
Nobody has write permissions to /home/cvs-extra:
OMFG.... ok Travis and I worked this out... apparently CVS needs to lock each and every dir in the whole repo, one at a time... ugh. Should be fixed now
On 4/14/08, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
The exact same error? Can you make sure you have write access to the CVSROOT dir of that repo? Just try touching a file or something? Should be all you need
Nobody has write permissions to /home/cvs-extra:
OMFG.... ok Travis and I worked this out... apparently CVS needs to lock each and every dir in the whole repo, one at a time... ugh.
Should be fixed now
Woo it works. Thanks guys! -Dan
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