Updating third party software

2002-10-14 Thread Ripalda-Marin, Miguel-Angel
Hi everybody, I'm tracking a third party software within my CVS repository. Till now, what I've done is this: 1.- Downloaded the initial release of the 3rd party software. 2.- Create a new module within my CVS repository. 3.- Work within the HEAD main branch. Now, another release of that 3rd

Re: Updating third party software

2002-10-14 Thread bollu
I thought that the import command together with the vendor branch was able to cope with this problem (i.e.: just do 'cvs import your_repository THIRD_PARTY_BRANCH a_new_release_tag' should be fine). Isn't? Cyrille Hi everybody, I'm tracking a third party software within my CVS repository.

Re: Remote vs Local !

2002-10-14 Thread Larry Jones
Udaya kumar.R writes: The above mentiond setup works fine if i access the repository locally, -d/usr/local/cvs , for both checkout and checkin. But it is not working for the pserver method for checkin. It says 'commit requires write permission'. You need to run pserver as root and make sure

Re: Updating third party software

2002-10-14 Thread Larry Jones
Ripalda-Marin, Miguel-Angel writes: I'm tracking a third party software within my CVS repository. Till now, what I've done is this: 1.- Downloaded the initial release of the 3rd party software. 2.- Create a new module within my CVS repository. 3.- Work within the HEAD main branch. Now,

Re: Updating third party software

2002-10-14 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ripalda-Marin, Miguel-Angel wrote: Hi everybody, I'm tracking a third party software within my CVS repository. Till now, what My condolences. ;) I've done is this: 1.- Downloaded the initial release of the 3rd party software. 2.- Create a new module within my CVS

Re: Updating third party software

2002-10-14 Thread Larry Jones
Mark Cooper writes: Obviously this depends on the relative number of files in the 3rd party software release that have changed since the last one, but I too manage 3rd party software via cvs and have (unless the 3rd party software release has a completely different folder/directory

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 01:49 PM 10/14/2002, Anne McCaffrey wrote: To implement additional security, I have made all Attic directories in the repository read only ... but today when a developer tried to add a new file,cvs add was aborted with the error,Cannot read Attic directory.Permission denied. Only when I gave

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Noel Yap
--- Anne McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am facing problems with Attic directories. I have a script that disallows users from removing files using cvs remove. To implement additional security, I have made all Attic directories in the repository read only, since all users

Re: Updating third party software

2002-10-14 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 03:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote: The problem with the vendor branch is that it starts at version 1.1 of every file (1.1.1.1 really, but that's an internal detail). You cannot start a vendor branch somewhere halfway up your trunk, so vendor branching is useless for the case

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Anne McCaffrey
Hi No,the files are not added to branch. The 'Branch' is MAIN and the CVS tags shows HEAD. It is the requirement of our project that no single developer should remove files(even using cvs remove) without consulting others involved and the PM; some of them have removed files previously which

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 14, 2002 at 11:52:12 (-0700), Anne McCaffrey wrote: ] Subject: Re: Problems with Attic permissions It is the requirement of our project that no single developer should remove files(even using cvs remove) without consulting others involved and the PM; some of them have

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Anne McCaffrey
Hi I understand that you may feel this is 'silly' but that really is beside the point.My original question was something else, if you noticed. Regards, Anne --- Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ On Monday, October 14, 2002 at 11:52:12 (-0700), Anne McCaffrey wrote: ] Subject: Re:

modules file question

2002-10-14 Thread Matt Lyon
Hi, After reviewing the documentation, I'm a bit confused as to whether or not an alias module can contain multiple aliases or directories in some sort of delimited list. Consider the following two examples: (1) Alias module definition: admin

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Anne McCaffrey wrote: That's kinda silly. Any file which has ``accidentally'' been removed with cvs rm can trivially be resurrected with cvs add and the resulting history will show clearly who the guilty party is. Why use a sledge hammer when a tack hammer

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Anne McCaffrey
--- Kaz Kylheku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Anne McCaffrey wrote: That's kinda silly. Any file which has ``accidentally'' been removed with cvs rm can trivially be resurrected with cvs add and the resulting history will show clearly who the guilty party is.

Re: Problems with Attic permissions

2002-10-14 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 14, 2002 at 14:04:33 (-0700), Anne McCaffrey wrote: ] Subject: Re: Problems with Attic permissions I understand that you may feel this is 'silly' but that really is beside the point.My original question was something else, if you noticed. You wouldn't have your original

Re: rdiff fails

2002-10-14 Thread Paul Nicholson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, An update on the problemthis happens on the command line as well as in the script. 'cvs -Qn rdiff -r 1.1 -r 1.2 -u module/file' fails with: cvs [rdiff aborted]: cannot open /tmp/cvsyE7DIO: File exists Using: CVS 1.11 (client/server) Thanks!

Re: rdiff fails

2002-10-14 Thread Paul Nicholson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ok, I've narrowed it down even moreit fails if I add the '-n' option. 'cvs -Q rdiff -r 1.1 -r 1.2 -u module/file' works. Any ideas on this? Thanks! ~Paul On Monday 14 October 2002 10:02 pm, Paul Nicholson wrote: Hey, An update on the