Re: Cannot commit owners.list

On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:35:01 +0200, Christoph wrote: > I was told to update owners.list to fix a mismatch of my email address > with bugzilla. However when I try to commit I get an error message: > > > $ cvs commit -m "fix my email so bugzilla and owners.list are in sync" owners.list > > Group gmail is undefined at /cvs/free/CVSROOT/acls line 87, <AVAIL> line 564. > > Group gmail is undefined at /cvs/free/CVSROOT/acls line 87, <AVAIL> line 565. > > Group gmail is undefined at /cvs/free/CVSROOT/acls line 87, <AVAIL> line 566. > > **** Access denied: cwickert is not in ACL for owners > > cvs commit: Pre-commit check failed > > cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first! > > What is going wrong here? Where are the first 3 lines coming from? A week has passed without anyone other than Hans getting back to me. Everyone else on vacation? ;)

The owners.list files in cvs are protected by acls. Only a few people can change them. An artificial bottleneck.