Re: Error committing changes in CVS (Alioth-related?)

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

   Hi!

* David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> [2011-05-24 01:03:55 CEST]:
> Le 23/05/2011 18:37, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña a écrit :
> > This might be related to the Alioth update, could someone please confirm they
> > get also this when comitting stuff:
> 
> Confirmed, I already warned on #alioth Saturday, and again before they
> sent their third update on dda, but they must have been overwhelmed with
> other changes.

 The thing here is, suid perl is long deprecated and will get removed in
the future. We should see this as a chance to get that fixed now
already (unless we are confident enough that we will have replaced CVS
by the release time of wheezy, but even then it might make sense to
invest here). I just checked on vasks in /cvs/webwml/CVSROOT, all the
files are sgid scm_webwml, and that is our issue.

cvs -d:ext:rhonda@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/webwml co CVSROOT

 Gives you the content of that directory, and you'll find four perl
scripts in there which either needs to get replaced with different
language or wrapper scripts that call them.

 I wonder if a wrapper script like this is safe:

$ cat commit_prep2-shell-wrapper
#!/bin/sh
/cvs/webwml/CVSROOT/commit_prep2 $*

 If this is considered acceptable we could commit that for the four
scripts and replace the calls in commitinfo and loginfo script (and add
them to the checkoutlist).

 Thoughts? Different approach?
Rhonda
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