Subject: Re: AnonCVS problems
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/04/1999 11:17:10
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!
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"