Help running 'make release' w/ r/o CVSROOT

[Scott R. Sewall]

Don Lewis wrote:

>On 18 Sep, Scott R. Sewall wrote:
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>>I'm trying to run 'make release' with my CVSROOT NFS mounted read-only.
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>>I'm running 4.9-PRERELEASE, cvsup'd from last Sunday 9/14.
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>>Is this possible do to?
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>Yes it is.  I've done a number of release builds on my -stable box and
>CVSROOT/val-tags hasn't been touched in ages even though my locally
>mounted /home/ncvs is mounted read-write.  I also did a -current 'make
>release' on another box that has the /home/ncvs NFS mounted.  I think it
>might be mounted read-write, but root gets turned into nobody who does't
>have write access.  I know that is true because 'cvs update' without the
>-R option barfs because it lacks write permission.
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My CVS repository does not have the file val-tags.  I also don't see 
this file on the web interface
to the CVS repository at freebsd.org.  How is this file created?

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>>The error message is:
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>>makewhatis /usr/release/usr/share/perl/man
>>if [ -f /etc/resolv.conf ]; then  cp -p /etc/resolv.conf 
>>/usr/release/etc;  fi
>>cd /usr/release/usr && rm -rf src &&  cvs -R -d /home/ncvs co  -P -r 
>>RELENG_4 src
>>cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: 
>>Permission denied
>>*** Error code 1
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>>Stop in /usr/src/release.
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>Interesting ...  'cvs -R' shouldn't be trying to write anything in
>/home/ncvs.  Also, if /home/ncvs is actually mounted read-only, it looks
>to me like write attempts should return an EROFS error instead of EPERM.
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Right you are, /home/ncvs is mounted r/w and exported r/w. None of the 
directories allow world
write access and they're owned by cvsupin. Thus the error of EPERM not 
EROFS.

-- Scott