Re: no write access to cvs directories

"Alexander K. Hansen" <[email protected]> Sat, 21 May 2005 22:09:04 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On May 21, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Jeff Horsager wrote:

> Sorry, poor wording.  I don't have write access to any of the
> directories in the tree anymore, although I did at one point in time.
>
> Jeff
>
>

Hmmm...send a message to fink-core (I don't have sufficient privileges 
to do it!)

There was a message concerning excessive bounces on your email account, 
but I don't think that would cause you to lose commit access.

--AH

> On 5/21/05, Alexander K. Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On May 21, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Jeff Horsager wrote:
>>
>>> I apparently don't have write access to some of the directories, 
>>> based
>>> on the following errors while trying to update a Russian translation:
>>>
>>> ----------- begin code --------------
>>> powerbook:~/Projects/fink/xml/users-guide horsager$ cvs ci -m 
>>> "russian
>>> translation" uguide.ru.xml Makefile
>>> [email protected]'s password:
>>> cvs commit: failed to create lock directory for
>>> `/cvsroot/fink/web/xml/users-guide'
>>> (/cvsroot/fink/web/xml/users-guide/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
>>> cvs commit: lock failed - giving up
>>> cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up
>>> ----------- end code -----------------
>>>
>>> Access wasn't an issue until recently.  To whom should I apply for
>>> write access?  Failing that, to whom should I send the translations
>>> for proper commit?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>
>> That's odd--you should have write access to _all_ directories in the
>> doc tree if you've got access anywhere there.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander K. Hansen
>> Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
>> visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
>> Levitated Dipole Experiment
>> 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
>> Cambridge, MA  02139-4213
>>
>>
>
>



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