[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS on savannah

[Rudy Gevaert]

[I'm currently preparing for exames, so I respond to mail irregular]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:03:11PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> However, there seems one (hopefully) minor issue left:
> 
>   Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:47:41 +0100
>   From: Erik Schnetter <address@hidden>
>   To: address@hidden
>   Subject: tree-ssa branch on savannah
> 
>   I am unable to check out the tree-ssa branch from savannah, while the 
>   main branch works fine.  I receive the error message
> 
>   $ cvs -z9 -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc checkout -P 
>   - -rtree-ssa-20020619-branch gcc
>   cvs [server aborted]: cannot write /cvsroot/gcc/CVSROOT/val-tags: 
>   Permission denied
> 
> Would you mind having a look?

The writer error comes because we are currently allowing writing to
the CVSROOT.  But why should it have to right to val-tags?

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