Re: zlib compression corruption from cvs server?

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin) writes:

> > Could not chdir to home directory /org/home/eichin: No such file or directory
> 
> Ok, that's fixed, now I get:
> 
> $ CVS_RSH=ssh CVSROOT=:ext:eichin@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot cvs co .
> cvs server: Updating .
> cvs server: Updating CVSROOT
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository
> `/cvs/debian-boot/CVSROOT': Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/cvs/debian-boot/CVSROOT'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Yes, I don't give normal folks write permissions to CVSROOT.  You
shouldn't try to checkout '.' module.  Use a real module instead.

> Is this intentional, or am I missing something?  (like, a new
> undocumented cvs option to access the repository read-only without
> getting any locks?)

Intentional.

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