Problems accessing CVS repository

[Darren Tucker]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have persistent problems to access the OpenSSH CVS repository as
> anonymous user, once it has been checked out:
> 
>   $ cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs.mindrot.org:/cvs co openssh
>   [...works fine...]
>   $ cd openssh
>   $ cvs up
>   cannot create_adm_p /tmp/cvs-serv5471/contrib
>   Permission denied
[...]
> This looks like a server problem.  Or am I doing something wrong?
> I never had this problem with cvs before and I still haven't with
> other cvs servers.

It appears to be a repository problem: cvs seems to need an "Emptydir" 
directory in CVSROOT, which is missing from the repository.

I have created CVSROOT/Emptydir it on my copy (anoncvs.mindrot.org) and 
told the sync script to leave it alone, which seems to have at least 
worked around the problem for now...

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