There is a typo in my last post which points at the wrong bug. Please reply to this post (cc 242066), NOT the last (cc 242866).
thanks - samj On 11/2/05, Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just upgraded pound-1.8.2 to pound-1.9.4-1 on a Debian 3.1 serving > > > up subversion repository. > > > > > > I verified that pound.cfg (unmodified) still contains these 2 entries: > > > > > > ExtendedHTTP 1 > > > WebDAV 1 > > > > > > After restarting pound, I get PROFIND 501 Not Implemented errors when > > > I try to access the repository. > > > > > > I installed pound-1.9.4-1 using apt-get (did not compile from source). > > > > > Well, turns out the prior version was compiled from source with > > --enable-msdav added. > > I don't recall this ever having been the case for the Debian package > (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242066), but it > would be easy enough to verify - it's public information :) > > Here were my comments on the issue back in August: > > #242066: please enable DAV support > Apparently one also needs a config setting, but to be sure I trawled > through the code and found that the list of characters matched in > regular expressions is more lenient with this option enabled, even > when the config file setting is disabled. The functionality seems > useful enough to be included in pound proper (eg for subversion > support), even if without the extra characters. Ideally they would be > separate runtime options. This would no doubt require an amount of > work upstream though. > > > To fix, just use dpkg-source and then dpkg-buildpackage after modifying > > ./debian/rules in the unpacked directory. > > I would like to support subversion by default. My understanding of the > situation is this: > > - we enforce RFC compliance. this is good and i agree with it. > - subversion should be RFC compliant - is it? > - MSDAV is not RFC compliant and needs workarounds which have to be > enabled at compile time > - currently subversion and msdav are bundled together under the same > compile time and config directives and as such I can't make a > subversion friendly package without also introducing potential > security issues associated with allowing MSDAV. > > Please let me know if these assumptions are accurate, > > Sam >
