On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Hi. I had ftp'd in all the files for the new ODBC code in the main
> Postgres tree. I forgot to change the protection on the derived
> odbc/configure file, so it is checked in without execute permission.
>
> Do you have any experience fixing this kind of problem? Simply checking
> in a new version with the right permissions doesn't seem to fix it. The
> two alternatives I'm considering are:
> - "cvs delete" then "cvs add" the file with the right permissions
> - going into the cvs tree itself and brute-force change it
>
> Suggestions? If you know what to do, and want to do it, feel free to fix
> it. I'm inclined to try the brute-force method, but remote CVSup trees
> (like mine) may need the same kludge fixup :O
hub> ls -lt
total 967
-r--r--r-- 1 thomas pgsql 11086 Oct 21 01:39 GNUmakefile.in,v
-r-xr-xr-x 1 thomas pgsql 65482 Oct 21 01:23 configure,v
permissions appear to be fine in the repository itself...and I just
checked it out:
-rw-r--r-- 1 scrappy wheel 8844 Oct 21 14:46 configure.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scrappy wheel 60983 Oct 21 14:46 configure
Marc G. Fournier scrappy@hub.org
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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