Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: [gnu.org #178852] Incorrect permissions on www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/ (fwd)

[Elfyn McBratney]

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Hello Sylvain,

On Saturday 17 Apr 2004 07:57, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On 2004.04.16 23:00, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > Hello Laurence,
> >
> > On Friday 16 Apr 2004 19:39, Laurence Finston wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > D.E. Evans suggested I ask you about the problem with the CVS
> > > repository for the webpages for 3dldf.  I'm not sure what he means
> > > by "replicating", but I think it refers to them not being
> > > accessible via http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf.
> >
> > In this case I think he meant replicating the webcvs to www.gnu.org.
> >
> > And, from looking I do see them on www.gnu.org:
> >   http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/LDF.html
> >
> > > I haven't been able to download the CVS HTML tree structure.
> >
> > I see an ownership problem with the webcvs for the 3dldf project.  If
> > you can send me your Savannah username, signed by your GPG key we
> > have on file, I can fix this for you.
> >
> >   savannah-hackers,
> >
> >   I'm about to leave the house, so feel free to take over if I don't
> >   respond :)
>
> Here is what I know on this issue:
>
> The problem is that there is no group 3dldf and web3dldf on Savannah.
> I did not fixed this problem because we had to investigate why such a
> mistake occur. I also warned the sysadmin, but I guess nobody had the
> time to check it.

Yep, that's what I discovered, too.  Though, I have this really bad habit of 
leaving out those vital pieces of information..  don't worry, it's a bug and 
not a feature ;)

Sorry about the duplication, I'll read up in the archives now. :)

> There is no ownership problem: 'derekgnu' first reported the error, and
> I eventually offered to manually update the repository until we find
> the cause of the error. I made the changes under his identity. Keep in
> mind that members of project www have access to all webcvs
> repositories. Also, this ownership has no impact on whether one can
> checkout the repository.
>
> You can search in the savannah-hackers archives for more details.
>
> The 403 error comes from the fact there is no index.html. I read
> somewhere that you can use a .symlinks file (or similar) to tell which
> symlinks you want to create.

Yes, you (Laurence) need to commit a .symlinks in 3dldf's webcvs file of the 
form (iirc):

  syslink-parent symlink-child

You can read more about it on this page:
  <http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.html#TOC01>

Elfyn

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