Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Philip Martin
One of my colleagues at WANdisco asked some questions about using freeze. The first thing he wanted to know is how to detect whether a freeze is running. There are various approaches: look at running processes, look at processes with the lock file open, implement some external lock, etc. but

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Daniel Shahaf
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should provide it. I'm concerned that it would be making freeze special. Would we need to provide similar queries for upgrade, recover, pack, etc? For what it's

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Philip Martin
Daniel Shahaf danie...@apache.org writes: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should provide it. I'm concerned that it would be making freeze special. Would we need to provide similar queries for

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Philip Martin wrote on Fri, May 31, 2013 at 14:23:35 +0100: Daniel Shahaf danie...@apache.org writes: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should provide it. I'm concerned that it would be making

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Julian Foad
Daniel Shahaf wrote: Philip Martin wrote on Fri, May 31, 2013 at 14:23:35 +0100: Daniel Shahaf danie...@apache.org writes: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should provide it.  I'm concerned that

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to find out who/what has the lock. So, a system that tells me the repo is currently locked by which of the

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 05/31/2013 11:23 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to find out who/what has the lock. So, a system that tells

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Branko Čibej
On 31.05.2013 17:27, C. Michael Pilato wrote: On 05/31/2013 11:23 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to find out

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Julian Foad
C. Michael Pilato wrote: On 05/31/2013 10:35 AM, Julian Foad wrote: Just an opinion from general experience in the world of computers. With any system where some resource is reserved (locked), it can be useful to find out who/what has the lock.  So, a system that tells me the repo is

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Julian Foad julianf...@btopenworld.com wrote: That's OK for manual investigation, but we're looking for a solution that suitable for building into infrastructure management scripts, so it needs to be portable and reliable, and stable across OS upgrades and the

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Doug Robinson
Philip: How do I subscribe to the dev list? Not sure I really have time for that... but perhaps. Thank you. Doug On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Philip Martin philip.mar...@wandisco.comwrote: Doug, I started a thread on the dev list and meant to cc you but forgot. Don't feel any

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Doug Robinson doug.robin...@wandisco.com wrote: How do I subscribe to the dev list? Not sure I really have time for that... but perhaps. http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Re: Using svnadmin freeze

2013-05-31 Thread Julian Foad
Doug Robinson wrote: Philip: How do I subscribe to the dev list?  Not sure I really have time for that... but perhaps. I'm not Philip but I can tell you.  Google(subversion dev mailing list subscribe) - http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html - email