You need to let world write to val-tags, I think:
amaterasu 1078 /usr/packages/xemacs% echo $CVSROOT
:pserver:cvs@cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs
amaterasu 1080 /usr/packages/xemacs% cvs -z5 update -dP -r sumo-2001-12-11 packages
cvs [server aborted]: cannot write /pack/xemacscvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied
--- and, also, the sumo tags are sticky (at least sumo-2001-09-29 is),
which is probably wrong for dated tags like the sumo tags are. I spent
several seconds in confusion when I did a checkout from the new
cvs.xemacs.org and found nothing had changed in over a month! :)
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--- Alim Razim, for the Northern Alliance, demonstrating fine
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