Re: Stuck cvs lock on anoncvs repository

From: Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Stuck cvs lock on anoncvs repository
Date: 2009-06-29 21:12:02
Message-ID: 1d4e0c10906291412o44033e25j6cc370f70d4e89d@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
>> the problem is that we transferred the locks from cvs.postgresql.org to
>> anoncvs.postgresql.org which confused cvs running on anoncvs.
>
> Ah, now I understand.  Yes, sounds like a simple --exclude will fix it.

From our experience, it's always better to put the locks outside of
the repository.

You should be able to set:
LockDir=/var/lock/cvs/your-repo
in the CVSROOT/config file.

(with /var/lock/cvs/your-repo a directory where every user accessing
the repository can write - readonly users included).

--
Guillaume

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