Problem with remote repository

[Peter Williams]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 01:36 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
>> Attempting to push changes to the gwsmhg repository on sourceforge I get:
>>
>> [peter at mudlark gwsmhg.ssh]$ hg push
>> pushing to ssh://peter_ono@gwsmhg.hg.sourceforge.net/hgroot/gwsmhg
>> searching for changes
>> remote: abort: Permission denied: /hgrepo/g/gw/gwsmhg/.hg/journal.dirstate
> 
> When Mercurial gives you an error like that, it's coming directly from
> the kernel. The effective user can't access the file. If the error looks
> bogus, that only means you haven't looked hard enough, because the error
> is undeniably real.
> 
> Make sure you've checked all your assumptions about:
> 
> - what user is effective
> - what the file permissions are
> - what the group permissions are
> - what the directory permissions are  <- probably where your problem is
> - how the filesystem is mounted
> - what additional restrictions like ACLs or SELinux are in effect
> 

It's hard to properly check most of these things in the actual 
repository because you can't access it directly but only via a copy 
obtained using adminrepo and I suspect that the ownerships in that copy 
don't necessarily reflect those in the real repo.  I had a similar 
problem when I used adminrepo to add a hgrc file (with descriptions 
etc.) to the repo and hg didn't like the file (called it suspicious) 
because of its ownerships so I removed it.  I raised the problem with 
sourceforge and they admitted that it was a bug and would look into it 
(but I haven't heard anything since).  I'll raise the issue again now 
using this problem as an example but I thought that I should check that 
it wasn't a hg problem first as the names of the files in .hg there were 
different to what I see here.  Is this a hg version issue?

Thanks for the help,
Peter
PS I don't know why we can't have direct access to the repo.  The 
adminrepo thing was (apparently) originally introduced for cvs 
maintenance where it may have been necessary (due to cvs's design 
requiring one CVSROOT for all projects) but I can't see why it's 
necessary for hg.
-- 
Peter Williams                                   pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au

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