Vincent Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > Was it a CVS you imported?
> > 
> > When we import a CVS, we do not keep the CVSROOT/, this directory is
> > usually way too specific to be kept without risking to break lot of
> > things.
> 
> However it contains some important metadata like tags and history. 
> Importing CVS tarballs is a bit tricky and error prone, I was wondering 
> if someone had it more or less scripted.
> 
> I've written a simple (experimental) solution last month, have a look at 
> /usr/local/bin/sv_fixcvs : usage should be 1) unpack user CVS tarball in 
> the proper place (/cvsroot/<project>), 2) run sv_fixcvs <project> so 
> it'll "normalize" the files attributes. It's really basic sanitization 
> though.

What's strange is that I thought I had normalized the file
attributes... but that seemed to be the problem. Certainly the logs
were showing an access error.

I didn't really have time to go into it deeply.


Nic



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