Hi,
I want to invoke subversion from inside the base autohandler in my mason install. I have searched the archives and googled it, but can't find a clear answer. I'm a relative newbie to subversion (although I have lots of experience with cvs), and anyway subversion is working quite well on my system. >From the command line and from a remote client it is working fine. I have more experience with mason (a couple of years). We have a simple home-grown cms based on mason, and it needs version control. I have a scheme that will fit in with our work-flow, except for one point.
I can't seem to invoke subversion from within mason. I simply want to check if the file has been modified, and if so, to update it from the directory. I thought I could just invoke it from perl in the autohandler with `svn status --show-updates path/to/file`, get the information I need, and do the next thing.
But I find that I get the error message:
svn: Can't check path '/root/.subversion': Permission denied
So I am in the /root directory, and can't get out of it. I've tried to cd, but that doesn't work. The apache server, although started by root, is running under a non-root user, httpd, who owns the checked out files and who has access to the svn repository. My component root is under httpd's home directory. I don't understand why I am stuck in the /root directory, and not in the component root, for instance, for this simple call. Of course, if I use perl's "system 'svn status --show-updates path/to/file' ", it fails with the same error.
If I run the command "svn status --show-updates path/to/file" on the actual command line, as either httpd or root, it works just fine. But from within Mason, it doesn't. Why? What can I do?
Thanks,
Paul
