Bug#357617: tries to write files in weird places

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt marc at marcbrockschmidt.de
Sun Mar 19 13:24:51 UTC 2006


Peter Samuelson <peter at p12n.org> writes:
> [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]
>> Package: libsvn-core-perl
>> Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-3
> First question, have you tried 1.3.0-3?  I'm not saying it's
> necessarily fixed, but I'd appreciate if you could try it.

Hrrrm. I only have a (more or less productive) system to test this out,
upgrading to a new major subversion version there is not really an
option, I fear. I'll see if I find the time to try this locally (when
1.3.0-X packages are available on powerpc).

>> I guess it tries to use . for some tempfile when doing the
>> merge. Which is, err, not a good idea. The very helpful error message
>> (absolute path would be nice) gives extra-frustration points.
> Uh, I don't get it - if you're merging stuff into a working copy, why
> *wouldn't* the working copy be read/write?
>
> Or is this a case where the code seems to assume your working directory
> *is* the working copy, but doesn't enforce this?

Yes. My working copy is writeable (I did a checkout a few seconds
before!), but my working directory is somewhere else, yes.

Marc
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