[arch-dev-public] cvs diff on old repos
Travis Willard
travis at archlinux.org
Mon Apr 14 10:54:28 EDT 2008
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at 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
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