Bug 182870 – dev-util/subversion svn-config has been dropped from the Subversion distribution

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description sulfinu 2007-06-22 08:31:00 UTC]

The Subversion package no longer contains the svn-config executable since version 1.4.0, as it can be read in the CHANGES file from the source tree (someone else pointed that out).
As a consequence, the Subversion ebuilds should be updated as necessary so as not to issue something like:
   echo "exported" > /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/subversion-1.4.4-r1/image//usr/include/subversion-1/svn-revision.txt 
   !!! dobin: svn-config does not exist 
   /usr/bin/install -c -d /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/subversion-1.4.4-r1/image//usr/lib 

Moreover, other ebuilds that rely on svn-config's existence should be changed accordingly. The cause for which I am submitting this report is the kdesdk ebuild which is broken although the kdesdk-kioslaves ebuild was silently fixed during discussions on bug 169289.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Luca Longinotti (RETIRED) 2007-06-22 11:58:35 UTC]

Ok this has been fixed in dev-util/subversion-1.4.4-r2, svn-config is not anymore referenced anywhere, thanks for noticing and reporting to us!
Best regards, CHTEKK.

[Comment 2 sulfinu 2007-06-22 13:14:35 UTC]

Wel, the kdesdk-3.5.6-r1 ebuild still contains "svn-config". When compiling, it says this:

checking for Subversion svn-config... not found
checking for Subversion headers... found
checking for Subversion libraries... found

and later on:

You're missing Subversion libraries (1.x)
KDE will not be able to browse Subversion repositories without it,

[Comment 3 Luca Longinotti (RETIRED) 2007-06-22 15:04:20 UTC]

There is the still open bug #169289 about that, please keep comments pertaining to other stuff searching for svn-config, and not finding it, to other, relevant bugs.
This here is about subversion ebuild itself not referencing svn-config, and was thus fully fixed. If you encounter any app that needs svn-config, please open appropriate new bugs with the maintainers, thanks!
Best regards, CHTEKK.

[Comment 4 sulfinu 2007-06-22 16:22:37 UTC]

> This here is about subversion ebuild itself not referencing svn-config
Not at all, this is your interpretation. It is one of your colleagues who prepended "dev-util/subversion" to my initial summary. Also, please read again my first comment.

This one here is only one problem which happens to involve more than one ebuild and is orthogonal to bug 169289.

When you said
>  svn-config is not anymore referenced anywhere
I expected you had searched in all ebuilds "svn-config".

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-06-22 22:57:07 UTC]

File separate bugs about whatever ebuilds that reference svn-config; it's not what this one is about.

CLOSED.