On 10.08.2018 13:37, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Tom,
>
> Von: Thomas Singer <thomas.sin...@syntevo.com> 
> On 2018-08-10 9:52, Branko Čibej wrote:
>> On 10.08.2018 09:44, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 08:44:08AM +0200, Thomas Singer wrote:
>>>> When trying to commit to a sourceforge repository using a 
>>>> self-compiled SVN binary, I'm getting following error:
>>>>
>>>> D:\temp\irrlicht>svn.exe commit --username HinzKunz -m "a message"
>>>> Authentication realm: <https://svn.code.sf.net:443> SourceForge User 
>>>> Password for 'HinzKunz': ************
>>>> svn: E000013: Commit failed (details below):
>>>> svn: E000013: Can't create directory
>>>> '/svn/p/irrlicht/code/db/transactions/5634-1.txn': Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> Could this mean that we have built the SVN binary incomplete 
>>>> (missing a part that is required for committing to sourceforge but 
>>>> not other SVN repositories)? How can I get some helpful logging? Thanks in 
>>>> advance.
>>>>
>>> I believe you'll need to ask sourceforge about this. This looks like 
>>> a server-side problem and there is nothing an SVN client could do about it.
>> More specifically, it looks like filesystem permissions on the 
>> repository storage are incorrect.
> Thanks. That's what I thought initially, too, simply guessing from the error 
> message. But the user who reported the problem writes that with his default 
> SVN binaries the commit succeeded for him, and I'm not sure that's it's not a 
> problem with our SVN binaries.
>
> Is it possible that there's a difference in protocols?
>
> If the one user uses https://, and the other uses svn:// or svn+ssh:// 
> protocols, the server side has different software, probably running under 
> different user account and permissions.

Of course, but it's still the server administrators responsibility to
make things work (i.e., set process/file ownership and permissions
correctly) if they support both http:// and svn:// protocols. Nothing on
the client side can affect that.

-- Brane

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