Re: making a read-only module in a read/write repository

Jim Hyslop wrote, On 04/01/2009 07:33 AM:
> Adam Mercer wrote:
>> We have a CVS repository containing many modules and I need to make a
>> couple of these modules read-only but maintain read/write access for
>> the other modules in the repository. I have tried simply changing the
>> permissions of the modules on the server to read only but this leads
>> to failure in creating read locks.
> You're on the right track. Make the modules read only, and add the
> "Lockdir=somedir" setting to the config file, where "somedir" is a path
> to a writable directory. See Appendix C.11 in the manual for more details.
> 

IIRC, you can also achieve the effect desired with the cvs_acls script from 
the contrib directory.

Perhaps look at using both for a second line of defense. :)

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