Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:29:27 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> To: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> Cc: "\[FreeBSD Stable\]" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "\[FreeBSD Ports\]" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Subversion 1.8 / FreeBSD 8 x86 STABLE Symlinks Message-ID: <20130630182927.GA43312@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <0641AF26-52A1-4D2D-9956-A3439D53CA42@dataix.net> References: <0641AF26-52A1-4D2D-9956-A3439D53CA42@dataix.net>
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:20:21PM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > When using svn 1.8 I have come across a situation where when it is used pointing to a symlink that refers to a working directory that a update will either segfault or exit prematurely and leave a lock held on the working directory that the symlink points to. > > This leaves you with one choice but to run cleanup on the referenced actual working directory which was AFAIK never the case for any version below 1.8. > > Not sure if this is a problem with svn or FreeBSD itself but thought I would report the characteristics in case it's noticed elsewhere. > > Details: > Using UFS > FreeBSD 8-STABLE i386 as of this date. > > In the directory... > cd /exports/usr > ln -s src8 src > svn up /exports/usr/src Known bug/problem in Subversion, not FreeBSD: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1496007 Previous discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-June/251842.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
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