introducing brockenboring

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Tue Jul 1 08:15:13 BST 2003


On Monday 30 June 2003 22:42, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:58, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:11:02PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Permission denied? That doesn't sound like a general problem.
> >
> > It's the only module I get that error message in, and that was after
> > I just checked out kdepim.
> 
> The reason is that after checking out kdepim the permissions of 
> Makefile.am.in (and all other files in kdepim/) are 0444, i. e. 
> Makefile.am.in is write-protected. cvs.sh now simply copies 
> Makefile.am.in to Makefile.am and then tries to append a line. 
> Obviously this fails because of the missing write permissions. I don't 
> know why Makefile.am.in in CVS doesn't have write permissions but a 
> 'chmod u+w Makefile.am' directly after the 'cp Makefile.am.in 
> Makefile.am' in kde-common/admin/cvs.sh fixes this problem.
Thanks. Unfortunatly I don't know how to change the permissions for a file
in CVS - so I added the chmod call 

Greetings, Stephan




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