[gdal-dev] Re: CVS Access

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> It did work with the new hostname, but then I had to use 'cvs login'
> before the checkout and could not login with user 'warmerda' (of
> course!) so I used my personal account on your system and was able to
> checkout part of the source tree but not all of it. It failed to create
> a lock file at some point, probably because my personal account did not
> have permissions to write to that directory. FYI, here is what I got:
> 
> D:\proj\gdal\src>cvs checkout gdal
> cvs server: Updating gdal
> cvs server: Updating gdal/apps
> U gdal/apps/GNUmakefile
> U gdal/apps/gdalinfo.c
> cvs server: Updating gdal/core
> U gdal/core/GNUmakefile
> U gdal/core/gdal.h
> U gdal/core/gdal_priv.h
> U gdal/core/gdaldataset.cpp
> U gdal/core/gdaldriver.cpp
> U gdal/core/gdaldrivermanager.cpp
> U gdal/core/gdalopen.cpp
> U gdal/core/gdalrasterband.cpp
> cvs server: Updating gdal/frmts
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository
> `/usr/cvsroot/gdal/frmts': Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/usr/cvsroot/gdal/frmts'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Daniel,

I have chmod -r g+w my /usr/cvsroot tree. Could you try again, and see
if it works now?

I will eventually setup anonymous access to the CVS repository, but for
now was planning to give real accounts to those interested (still a
small group). 

Later,

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