Trouble with automating svn update

[James Riordon <ho...@outofcontrol.ca>]

Hello,

	This is my first post to the list. I have been using subversion for  
a little over a year now but have just learnt about the hooks  
recently. I have post-commit working currently very well with the  
commit-email.pl script, and the pre-commit working in as far that it  
refuses empty commit messages with a friendly error.

	Today I need to setup another post-commit hook to automate the  
updating of our dev server each time a commit is done to the repo.  
Here are the particulars of my setup:

Repo:
/home/virtual/site1/fst/home/svn/repos/site50_repo

Dev site:
/home/virtual/site50/fst/var/www

Two versions of post-commit script have been tried:
Version 1:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/svn update /home/virtual/site50/fst/var/www
...
rest of post-commit (which works fine)


Version 2:
#!/bin/sh
/use/local/bin/update-admin
...
rest of post-commit (which works fine)

update-admin is a small C binary that contains this:
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
	{
		system("/usr/bin/svn update /home/virtual/site50/fst/var/www/");
	}
update-admin is chown'd to admin50:admin50 and chmod 755 +s, as per  
the instructions at:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20050406.ars

Both version of post-commit run perfectly from the command line, so I  
know I am mostly there. But for the life of me, trying different  
permissions, I can't seem to get it to work when I do a commit to the  
repos. There are no errors and the rest of the post-commit executes  
perfectly, which simply emails me the commit.

Being fairly new with hooks, I have been busily reading everything I  
can find, the beans book, mailing lists, but nothing seems to help me  
to get this to work. I think it is just an obvious oversight on my  
part, but I can't see. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

James

Re: Trouble with automating svn update

[James <ho...@outofcontrol.ca>]

I have made a little bit of progress but still in a corner. Here is  
the error message that I get from logging the update-admin below:

Authentication realm: <http://site50:80> Subversion repository
Password for 'apache': Authentication realm: <http://site50:80>  
Subversion repository
Username: svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/site50_repo/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/site50_repo/trunk': authorization failed  
(http://site50)

So obviously I have a permissions problem, but using the post-commit,  
why am I being asked for a password at all? I know I am missing  
something here, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

My current post-commit script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
LOG=/home/virtual/site50/fst/home/svn/repos/site50_repo/hooks/post- 
commit.log
/home/virtual/site50/fst/home/svn/repos/site50_repo/hooks/update- 
admin 2>$LOG 1>$LOG

My repos are owned by apache:apache and all files in the dev site are  
owned by apache:apache.

James


On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:26 PM, James wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 	This is my first post to the list. I have been using subversion  
> for a little over a year now but have just learnt about the hooks  
> recently. I have post-commit working currently very well with the  
> commit-email.pl script, and the pre-commit working in as far that  
> it refuses empty commit messages with a friendly error.
>
> 	Today I need to setup another post-commit hook to automate the  
> updating of our dev server each time a commit is done to the repo.  
> Here are the particulars of my setup:
>
> Repo:
> /home/virtual/site1/fst/home/svn/repos/site50_repo
>
> Dev site:
> /home/virtual/site50/fst/var/www
>
> Two versions of post-commit script have been tried:
> Version 1:
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/svn update /home/virtual/site50/fst/var/www
> ...
> rest of post-commit (which works fine)
>
>
> Version 2:
> #!/bin/sh
> /use/local/bin/update-admin
> ...
> rest of post-commit (which works fine)
>
> update-admin is a small C binary that contains this:
> #include <stdlib.h>
> int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
> 	{
> 		system("/usr/bin/svn update /home/virtual/site50/fst/var/www/");
> 	}
> update-admin is chown'd to admin50:admin50 and chmod 755 +s, as per  
> the instructions at:
> http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20050406.ars
>
> Both version of post-commit run perfectly from the command line, so  
> I know I am mostly there. But for the life of me, trying different  
> permissions, I can't seem to get it to work when I do a commit to  
> the repos. There are no errors and the rest of the post-commit  
> executes perfectly, which simply emails me the commit.
>
> Being fairly new with hooks, I have been busily reading everything  
> I can find, the beans book, mailing lists, but nothing seems to  
> help me to get this to work. I think it is just an obvious  
> oversight on my part, but I can't see. Does anyone have any  
> suggestions? Thanks!
>
> James
>
>