I was trying to importsrcpkg the automake.src.rpm from SLES 10 to rebuild it for SLES 11 when I came upon a bug. The tarball is unpacked as readonly:

osc importsrcpkg automake-1.9.6-13.2.src.rpm A automake No files were committed to the server. Please commit them manually. Package 'automake' only imported locally

% cd automake/ % ls -la automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2 -r--r--r-- 1 luke criemp 765505 2009-08-14 09:24 automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2

If I then try to commit the files:

% osc addremove % osc ci -m "SLES 10 automake" ... Transmitting file data ..[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/notbackedup/users/luke/obs/devel:tools:building/automake/.osc/automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2'

The file cache under .osc has automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2 as read-only also, so it can't be written when the mod is submitted to the server.