On 27 Mar, Willie Wong wrote: > Hi Helmut: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Penguin Lover Helmut Jarausch > squawked: >> I'm updating a Gentoo system and now 'svn' is broken >> >> For all sites I've tried I get >> svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k': could >> not connect to server (http://svn.python.org) >> I have upgraded to dev-util/subversion-1.5.6 and net-misc/neon-0.28.4 >> > > I suspect your problem is the same as Nicolai's in the thread "layman: > could not connect to server". > > There is a new USE for subversion in the versions 1.5.* called > "webdav-neon", it enables the http module. So, please show output of > > emerge -pv subversion > svn --version
It's strange. I have even upgraded to svn-1.6.0, still the same problem emerge -pv subversion These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-util/subversion-1.6.0 USE="berkdb dso kde nls perl python webdav-neon -apache2 -bash-completion -ctypes-python -debug -doc -emacs -extras -gnome-keyring -java -ruby -sasl -vim-syntax -webdav-serf" 0 kB svn --version svn, version 1.6.0 (r36650) compiled Mar 27 2009, 17:04:08 Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/). The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. - handles 'svn' scheme * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. - handles 'file' scheme Many thanks for any help, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

