"Dean Michael Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Ian! > > On 1/22/07, Ian Dexter R. Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks, Dean. >> > > No problem. :) > >> >> svn: Can't check path '/home/user/.subversion': Permission denied >> >> So http_user is looking for a config path? I copied a working config >> directory to /tmp: >> >> cp -r /home/user/.subversion /tmp/config >> chown -R httpd_user:httpd_user /tmp/config >> $ sudo -u httpd_user /usr/bin/svn update /path/to/webapps/rootdir >> --config-dir /tmp/config >> >> And it worked! I also tested the post-commit hook to automatically >> update the working directory based on the last commit, and that, too, >> worked. Hay... >> >> But that should have worked without a config dir, right? Please >> correct me if I'm wrong. (I did try it without explicitly pointing to >> the config dir, and the subsequent commits worked. *Sigh* some more.) >> > > Actually it does need a client configuration directory for the user > running the svn binary -- this is because that's where the svn binary > caches data (like passwords, repository details, usernames, client > specific flags/configurations, etc.). > > What happened here is that the configuration information had been > saved in the configuration of the working copy. This is why usually > the first time a user runs svn checkout, the client specific flags are > put in ~/.subversion and the working copy will refer/defer to the > configuration which you used to check out the code. If you used a > different directory for the configuration, then the working copy will > refer to that directory in succeeding updates.
You can also run SVN in a non-interactive mode with the --non-interactive flag. Just make sure that you run the client with the proper credentials (dangerous though, as 'ps ax' will reveal such creds to other users on the box). -- JM Ibanez Senior Software Engineer Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
