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Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes:

> I am using CVS from the packages.  Lately, every time I run it, I get the following message:
>
> warning: this CVS does not support PreservePermissions
>
> How do I get it to either drop the message, or actually preserve permissions?

In the CVSROOT/config file, set "PreservePermissions=no" (which I
thought was the default anyway). Permissions were always a bit wonky in
CVS at best, and hard links even more so.