[Xorg] CVS warnings at commit...

[Brian Paul]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:48:21AM -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> 
>>Daniel Stone wrote:
>>
>>>Convert the loginfo file to use new-style format strings, instead of
>>>%{sVv}. I don't know what the new-style format strings are. All I know
>>>%is that, yes, it's annoying as hell.
>>
>>Would somebody please update the mesa/CVSROOT/loginfo file for me?  I 
>>don't seem to have permission.
> 
> 
> Of course you do - loginfo,v is 775. You don't edit the file directly,
> you do cvs co CVSROOT from :ext:cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/mesa. You edit
> loginfo there, and check it in. You'll also need to update checkoutlist.

I've tried various things, but always get errors like this:

Enter passphrase for key '/home/brian/.ssh/id_rsa':
cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT
cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/mesa/CVSROOT' 
(/cvs/mesa/CVSROOT/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/mesa/CVSROOT'
cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up


Is that a stale CVS lock?


>>I think that whoever updated the CVS software should have updated the 
>>scripts too.
> 
> 
> I updated cvs, to 1:1.12.9-1.1. Before that, it was myself who updated to
> 1:1.12.8-1.1, and 1:1.12.3-1.1. These were all security releases, and
> there's something like eight compromises fixed.
> 
> I have no desire to maintain a forked copy of CVS (with old-style info
> parsing) - having to apply a patch to shut pserver up on read-only mode
> so clients don't get confused is bad enough.
> 
> I applied it to fix security issues; I do not know how to update the
> info scripts (I know *how* to do so, but I don't know what to change it
> to). Thus, I have no intention of doing so.
> 
> There are 324 repositories across 55 projects. My time spent on admin
> stuff is already stretched beyond what I'd hope it would be; there's no
> way I'm going through and updating all the CVS trees.
> 
> I know it sucks, and when I found out, I wanted to punch the physical
> representation of CVS in the head. There's a reason I use tla for most
> everything these days.

Thanks for the info.  I had no idea who was changing the CVS software 
or why.

-Brian