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Re: making a read-only module in a read/write repository


From: Jim Hyslop
Subject: Re: making a read-only module in a read/write repository
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:33:56 -0400
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Adam Mercer wrote:
> We have a CVS repository containing many modules and I need to make a
> couple of these modules read-only but maintain read/write access for
> the other modules in the repository. I have tried simply changing the
> permissions of the modules on the server to read only but this leads
> to failure in creating read locks.
You're on the right track. Make the modules read only, and add the
"Lockdir=somedir" setting to the config file, where "somedir" is a path
to a writable directory. See Appendix C.11 in the manual for more details.

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Jim Hyslop
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