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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
To: Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, robbat2@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP #10 -- Proposal for restructuring the CVS regarding documentation wrt internationalization proposal
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:56:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030812215647.GD31636@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030812124513.GD4094@mail.lieber.org>

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:45:17AM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> 1) I'd like Robin (robbat2) to comment on this since the primary reason for
> the GLEP seems to be better control over CVS permissions.  I know Robin has
> some ideas on how he wants to change CVS permissions, so his feedback here
> is important. (cc'd on this email)
To elaborate on this, I planned to implement the same software FreeBSD
uses to help manage their CVS repository. It consists of a few files in
CVSROOT and changes to existing files there only. It changes us to using
an access control list (contained in files, not using filesystem ACLs)
from the existing UNIX permissions.

The documentation at the top of this file describes the system best.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/CVSROOT-src/cvs_acls.pl?rev=1.24&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Here is the 'avail' file for the FreeBSD 'src' tree:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/CVSROOT-src/avail?rev=1.208&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

There is also a patch to the cvs_acls.pl program so that the directory
elements it takes can be regular expressions.

As a side bonus this would remove the nasty CVS locks that presently
occur when somebody tries to checkin some code to a place that they
don't have access to, and the lock gets left behind.

It also makes it very easy to specifically restrict any given user(s) or
group(s) from any given part of CVS, or vice versa, as an example:
unavail||gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage,gentoo-src/portage
avail|carpaski|gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage,gentoo-src/portage

This blocks anybody execept carpaski (and the cvsadmins as they would
have a later rule allowing them global access) from being able to modify
portage.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
E-Mail     : robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-12 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-04 18:31 [gentoo-dev] GLEP #10 -- Proposal for restructuring the CVS regarding documentation wrt internationalization proposal Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-05 10:18 ` Svyatogor
2003-08-05 11:43   ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-05 11:50     ` FRLinux
2003-08-05 12:03       ` Svyatogor
2003-08-05 13:07         ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-12 13:05     ` Kurt Lieber
2003-08-12 13:20       ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-12 13:41       ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-12 15:56         ` Kurt Lieber
2003-08-05 13:31 ` Lisa Marie Seelye
2003-08-05 13:25   ` Svyatogor
2003-08-05 14:15   ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-05 15:21   ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-05 19:51     ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-06  8:06       ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-12 12:45 ` Kurt Lieber
2003-08-12 13:36   ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-12 13:43   ` Svyatogor
2003-08-12 21:56   ` Robin H. Johnson [this message]

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