Re: gnu/42726 (Was: cvs checkout bug existing val-tags and readonlyfs)

[Eugene Grosbein]

Larry Jones wrote:

> > One more addition: if I run 'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' instead of
> > 'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' I see it still tries to create lock
> > in the repository and fails due to 'Permission denied'.
> [...]
> > instead of 'cvs -R --allow-root=/home/ncvs'.
> 
> And your point is?  You can use LockDir= in CVSROOT/config to put the
> lock files somewhere other than in the repository. 

Yes, when it's my repository. And no, when it's just read-only mirror.

> I have no idea what
> -R does since that's not in standard CVS.

Well, you are right, I need to contact FreeBSD team for that.

> You can also specify the
> global -n option to CVS in most cases to avoid creating lock files at
> all.

That doesn't work at server side (server says 'there is no version here; ...')
and it doesn't change anything at client side (still says 'Protocol error...')
when using cvs -R.

So, thank you, Larry, for your cooperation. 
Now I see this is FreeBSD-specific problem.

Eugene Grosbein