On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 09:25:00PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Friday, September 3, 1999 at 18:15:16 (-0400), Bill Sommerfeld wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: AnonCVS problems 
> >
> > this makes anoncvs worthless for people who want to maintain local
> > changes.  If merges don't really work, then it's not a
> > fully-functional anoncvs service.
> 
> Hmmm....  There's no similar problem with the CVS "pserver" method.
> 
> I've been maintaining some local changes in CVS itself simply by keeping
> them in a working directory checked out from the Cyclic anonymous server
> with 'cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.cyclic.com:/home2/cvsroot co ccvs'
> and I've yet to encounter any problems...
> 
> Is the anoncvs.netbsd.org setup configured to create the CVS lock files
> in a separate directory, and if so is that directory definitely writable
> by the "anoncvs" user?

Yeah, it is.  I'm going to look into this again -- many apologies for the
inconvenience to everyone!

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