On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:20:21PM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > When using svn 1.8 I have come across a situation where when it is used > pointing to a symlink that refers to a working directory that a update will > either segfault or exit prematurely and leave a lock held on the working > directory that the symlink points to. > > This leaves you with one choice but to run cleanup on the referenced actual > working directory which was AFAIK never the case for any version below 1.8. > > Not sure if this is a problem with svn or FreeBSD itself but thought I would > report the characteristics in case it's noticed elsewhere. > > Details: > Using UFS > FreeBSD 8-STABLE i386 as of this date. > > In the directory... > cd /exports/usr > ln -s src8 src > svn up /exports/usr/src
Known bug/problem in Subversion, not FreeBSD: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1496007 Previous discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-June/251842.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"