Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/23/03:50:22
[Apologies if this is the wrong place for this bug report - cvshome.org
is so impenetrable that I can't even search to see if this is an
upstream cvs bug or not.]
In Cygwin CVS 1.11.6-3 (but not 1.11.5-1 or 1.11.0-1), when trying to
pull by tag, the following error is encountered:
D:\mozilla>cvs -d //machine/share co -P -r NSPRPUB_PRE_4_2_CLIENT_BRANCH
mozilla/nsprpub
cvs checkout: warning: cannot open //machine/share/CVSROOT/val-tags
read/write
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot read //machine/share/CVSROOT/val-tags
Many other CVS operations (checkout, checkin, update) seem to work fine
- it's only pulling by tag which fails.
The repository in question is a copy of the Mozilla CVS repository,
rsynced to a Win2K machine using Cygwin rsync and then SMB shared as
readable and writable by all.
The client machines we tried this on were running Win2K or Win2K3.
CVSROOT was "//machine/sharepoint" when we didn't specify it on the
command line. CYGWIN was set to "nontsec". The machine can cat and touch
the val-tags file on the share - it seems that only the CVS process
cannot see it correctly.
We solved the issue by downgrading CVS to 1.11.5-1 using the Cygwin
setup.exe, so the problem is not urgent for us.
If more information is required, please ask. I'm subscribed to the
digest version of the list, so it may take a day or two to get a response.
Many thanks for your time,
Gerv
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