Problems accessing CVS repository

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 15 01:19, Darren Tucker wrote:
> 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...

That works for me, too.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat