Javier,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Javier Andalia <janda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andres,
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Andres Riancho
> <andres.rian...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> List,
>>
>>    We had some issue that raised a "TypeError:
>> Gtk.MozEmbed.render_data() argument 3 must be string, not url_object",
>> I fixed in a while ago in revision "4300", and now it's appearing
>
> r4300 is the right number?

No, that's why I put it between quotes :) Didn't thought that the
exact revision mattered

>> again [0]. The strange thing is that the bug report says that they are
>> using the latest revision, which should have the bug already fixed;
>> AND in the traceback it shows the OLD version of that line of code
>> [1]. So... how can this w3af install be in revision 4346 but have that
>> old piece of code?
>>
>>    @Javier: You worked on the auto-update, any hints?
>
> The only thing I can think of right now is that an error actually
> occurred when updating the code and yet w3af could be restarted (after
> displaying the user an error message). I've just checked the routine
> that reads from the svn file the current revision [0] and it takes as
> reference *only* the svn "entries" file in the project root. Also,
> this is possible with SVN:
>
> $:~/workspace/w3af$ svn info
> [...]
> Revision: 4331
> [...]
>
> $:~/workspace/w3af$ cd plugins
> $:~/workspace/w3af/plugins$ svn info
> [...]
> Revision: 4347
> [...]
>
> Meaning that different directories in the project can be updated to
> different revisions.
>
> So it seems that the get-revision routine doesn't warranty that the
> whole code is updated to the reported version.

Is there a better way of doing that with python's svn wrapper?

> Javier
>
> [0] 
> https://w3af.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/w3af/trunk/core/controllers/misc/get_w3af_version.py
>



-- 
Andrés Riancho
Director of Web Security at Rapid7 LLC
Founder at Bonsai Information Security
Project Leader at w3af

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