svn error during 'make buildkernel'?

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 3 22:47:25 UTC 2013


On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 03:46:08PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 06:20:47PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 03:17:02PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > 
> > > > BTW, you should upgrade devel/subversion anyway, since there are
> > > > security vulnerabilities.
> > > 
> > > 1.7.9 works/worked fine for updating my /usr/src and my personal
> > > svn repository.  The change to use svnlite in newvers.sh should
> > > have an entry in UPDATING to alert users that have a too old 
> > > svn port that they need to upgrade.  I go as far to suggest that
> > > that the script should look for svn in the path before it looks
> > > for svnlite.
> > 
> > I cannot differentiate what version of svn is used to check out the
> > tree.  When in doubt, software in base wins, IMHO.
> 
> You don't need to differentiate anything.  devel/subversion
> installs svnversion.  svnversion simply needs to be in $PATH.
> If newvers.sh can't find svnversion in $PATH, then it can fall
> back to /usr/bin/svnliteversion.  The install svnversion from
> devel/subversion will in all likelihood be consistent with the
> svn used to checkout/update /usr/src.
> 

No, because you can set WITH_SVN=1 in src.conf, and svnlite will install
as svn.

Glen

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