Re: Protections problem on CVS tree

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Protections problem on CVS tree
Date: 1998-10-21 18:49:41
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.05.9810211444220.7470-100000@hub.org
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> Hi. I had ftp'd in all the files for the new ODBC code in the main
> Postgres tree. I forgot to change the protection on the derived
> odbc/configure file, so it is checked in without execute permission.
>
> Do you have any experience fixing this kind of problem? Simply checking
> in a new version with the right permissions doesn't seem to fix it. The
> two alternatives I'm considering are:
> - "cvs delete" then "cvs add" the file with the right permissions
> - going into the cvs tree itself and brute-force change it
>
> Suggestions? If you know what to do, and want to do it, feel free to fix
> it. I'm inclined to try the brute-force method, but remote CVSup trees
> (like mine) may need the same kludge fixup :O

hub> ls -lt
total 967
-r--r--r-- 1 thomas pgsql 11086 Oct 21 01:39 GNUmakefile.in,v
-r-xr-xr-x 1 thomas pgsql 65482 Oct 21 01:23 configure,v

permissions appear to be fine in the repository itself...and I just
checked it out:

-rw-r--r-- 1 scrappy wheel 8844 Oct 21 14:46 configure.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scrappy wheel 60983 Oct 21 14:46 configure

Marc G. Fournier scrappy(at)hub(dot)org
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
scrappy(at){postgresql|isc}.org ICQ#7615664

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