Re: out-of-tree drivers [was: Re: Git Migration COMPLETE]

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:37:36PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:03:49PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:54:26PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:35:24PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:06:43PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > > 
> > > > >    So it's finally done. Every piece of the archive is now on
> > > > > git.debian.org. The fonts and debian/xorg package should show up on the
> > > > 
> > > > If I may ask: where would you see out of tree modules best placed?
> > > > I have 2 currently:
> > > > - xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> > > > - xserver-xorg-input-evtouch (ITP-ed)
> > > > 
> > > > together with the in-tree modules (pkg-xorg/driver) or somewhere else on
> > > > their own?
> > > 
> > > Sure, put them in pkg-xorg/driver. If you want to denote them as
> > > out-of-tree in the repository description (such as by leaving out "X.org"
> > > in the description) that might be helpful.
> > 
> > Ok!
> > 
> > Ooops:
> > malattia@alioth:/srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-xorg/driver> mkdir xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.git
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.git': Permission denied
> > 
> > it seems a chmod g+w is missing on the driver/ dir :)
> 
> Try the setup-repository script that's in /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-xorg.
> It sets up all the little extras like the hooks to send changes emails to
> alioth and so on. That should work.

Herm... it doesn't seem to solve the 'permission denied' issue, the
group doesn't have write permisison in pkg-xorg/driver/ itself.
And yes, I'm in the pkg-xorg group.

Sorry to bother :)
-- 
mattia
:wq!