[darcs-users] Can't create temporary file with 'changes --repo=URL'

[Tommy Pettersson]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:22:25AM -0300, Thiago Arrais wrote:
> $ darcs changes --xml --last=5
> --repo=http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/repos/trunk
> 
> darcs failed:  Not a repository:
> http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/repos/trunk (Failed to create
> temporary file darcs: permission denied (Permission denied))
[...]
> The URL /is/ a repository, despite what Darcs says. My experiments
> have shown that if I try that same command-line inside a darcs repo
> dir (any repo dir), everything works fine.

This is a bug in darcs.
Changes shouldn't require to be in a repo when using the --repo=URL option.
See also Issue76.