[drop the above ipv6-only address that only sometimes works from the recipients and I'll catch up later from the archives, thanks] Hi! I've got the following patch in my FreeBSD4 source. Perhaps it is a candidate to be merged into RELENG_4? Pretty please? It somehow fixes the case which is somehow b0rken when one tries to update from a read-only repository (whether de-facto or as specified on the command line, I do no remember, sorry) --- tag.c-ORIG Tue Jan 21 23:26:46 2003 +++ tag.c Tue May 11 16:49:53 2004 @@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ /* The tags is valid but not mentioned in val-tags. Add it. */ datum value; - if (noexec || nowrite) + if (noexec || nowrite || readonlyfs) { if (db != NULL) dbm_close (db); If I could remember how to reproduce the bug, I'd say so, but as I recall, it has to do with a combination of a read- only-mounted repository and/or specifying the -R flag to the client. Without this patch, the server tries to write to the read-only repository and fails. This patch is probably based on something seen in one or more of the other BSDen. thanks barry bouwsma