Re: Neon upgrade breaks backwards compatibility of Subversion

["Chris Wareham" <cwareham%visitlondon.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel wrote:
>   I updated to www/neon to version 0.28.3, which also rebuilt
>   devel/subversion-base. However, when attempting to commit to the
>   repository on a CentOS Linux box, which is running subversion 1.4.2 with
>   neon 0.25, it fails to authenticate. Rolling back www/neon to 0.26.3nb2
>   solves the problem. Has anybody else run into this issue?
>
> I haven't seen any problems, but none of my servers are running anything
> as ancient as 1.4.2.

I've upgraded the version of Subversion on the CentOS box to 1.5.6, but
the problem persists. Again, rolling back www/neon to 0.26.3nb2 on my
NetBSD box solves the problem.

> Perhaps you can post the precise error messages, with as much debugging
> as you can turn on, including what system you are running on, what
> authentication method you are trying, and whether all certificates are
> really valid.

The client trying to perform the commit is a NetBSD 5.0_RC4 machine with
Subversion 1.5.6 (1.5.6nb2 from pkgsrc) and neon 0.28.3. The server
hosting the repository is a CentOS 5.2 machine now running subversion
1.5.6. The connection is via HTTP, so no certificates are involved.

> You could also report this upstream, as it seems
> fairly likely to be an upstream bug rather than a pkgsrc bug.

I've had a poke around the Subversion mailing lists, but not come up
with anything. A client on a Mac OS X machine with Subversion 1.6.1
has the same problem, which I suspect is down to an incompatibility
between neon 0.28 and the 0.25 version that comes with CentOS. I'll take
this issue up on the neon mailing list if there is one.

Chris
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