I maintain /usr/ncvs via cvsup. By default, the directories in /usr/ncvs are
root.wheel, mode 755. This means you need to be root to do a "cvs get"
because RCS needs to create lock files in the cvs repository.
I often check out various bits of the -CURRENT source so I can compare with
what's in /usr/src (which is -STABLE). I wanted to do this as me rather than
root, for all the obvious reasons. So I chmod'd all the directories to 775, I
was already in group wheel, and all was fine.
Until the next cvsup which did a heap of SetAttrs operations and put the
directories back to 775. :<
Is there some simple way of getting around this? A quick peruse of the CVS man
didn 't suggest any way of turning off the RCS locking. The cvsup man page
didn't seem to have a flag to say "ignore directory modes". Do I just give
up and do it as root?
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