Re: svn error during 'make buildkernel'?

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 03:17:02PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > The port was at 1.8.x before I added the additional lookup of
> > svnlite to the script.
> 
> My installed port was at 1.7.9.  I can't find anywhere that 
> states that one must immediately upgrade to a new version
> when a port's maintainer updates it.  I've banged my head
> against the ports collection dependency idiocy too often
> to chase after every update.
> 

Fair enough.

> > There really is no need for UPDATING entry, since 1.7.9 is
> > deprecated, and the behavior you have seen is not a fatal
> > error with the buildkernel process.
> 
> Installing a freshly built kernel when an ERROR message appears
> within the last 10 lines of 'make buildkernel' seems like a 
> rather dumb thing do.
> 

But the last 3 lines state that the kernel build completed.

> > 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.

Glen