Shibboleth Developers

[Ian Young <>]

This has been causing me trouble for a while, maybe someone here can 
give me an idea as to what is going on.

I have the Java Shibboleth sources checked out into an Eclipse 3.1 
project.  As I'm not a committer to the project, I'm doing this from the 
anonymous CVS repository.

Now, when I want to generate a set of diffs for someone else to look at, 
the most natural thing would be to use Eclipse's built-in "Team | Create 
Patch..." facility on the project.  Alas, this always fails as follows:

***
cvs diff -N -u "/shibboleth"
    cvs diff: Diffing .
    cvs diff: Diffing bin
    cvs diff: Diffing conf
    cvs diff: Diffing custom
    cvs diff: Diffing data
    cvs diff: Diffing doc
    cvs diff: Diffing endorsed
    cvs diff: Diffing lib
    cvs diff: Diffing src
    cvs diff: failed to create lock directory for 
`/home/cvs/shibboleth/CVSROOT/Emptydir' 
(/home/cvs/shibboleth/CVSROOT/Emptydir/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
    cvs diff: failed to obtain dir lock in repository 
`/home/cvs/shibboleth/CVSROOT/Emptydir'
    cvs [diff aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
failed due to an internal error (took 0:04.106)
   Error: The server reported an error while performing the "cvs diff" 
command which may only indicate that a difference exists.
      Error: shibboleth: cvs [diff aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
***

I'm not sure where the need for the lock is coming from (although I 
guess it's nice to do diffs against a stable system).  If it is the CVS 
server at the repository doing this for my benefit, I guess this 
indicates there is some kind of permission problem in the anonymous 
repository.  Could also be an Eclipse problem, of course, but I haven't 
been able to find anything about a bug like this elsewhere.

        -- Ian