On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:00:15PM +1000, Sam Moffatt wrote:
> Forwarding to the new mailing list. It would be nice to get some form
> of acknowledgement, someone trying to replicate the issue at least.
> I'd file a bug but again the buddy system suggests I should post here
> or on IRC and at the moment I'm getting a whole lot of dead air.
> Perhaps I need more patience.
Please file an issue containing the entirety of your problem description
you are citing below, and link to this thread from the issue.
Thanks,
Stefan
>
> Steps to replicate are simple:
>
> Step 1) grab your friendly AuthzSVNAccessFile
> Step 2) Add a [groups:/] section with perhaps a token entry.
> Step 3) Test
> Step 4) Reply to list with test results and versions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sam
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sam Moffatt <sam.moff...@joomla.org>
> Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM
> Subject: Error with AuthzSVNAccessFile parsing in mod_dav_svn
> To: us...@subversion.tigris.org
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I think I've found a bug in the way that AuthzSVNAccessFile is parsed.
> I recently upgraded an old Subversion 1.2.1 site with some projects to
> first 1.4.2 and then 1.6.6 and discovered that the file balked at
> loading and spat out the following error:
> Failed to load the AuthzSVNAccessFile: An authz rule refers to group
> '@groups-committers', which is undefined
>
> I went hunting figuring a script somewhere had died but couldn't work
> out what was going wrong because as far as I could see the group did
> exist. I then looked to the section that was causing the issue:
> [groups:/]
> @groups-committers = rw
> @groups-readers = r
> * = r
>
>
> I removed the committers line and tested again, it then complained
> about groups-readers, so I removed that line. That then yielded an
> even strange error message:
> Failed to load the AuthzSVNAccessFile: An authz rule refers to group
> '*', which is undefined
>
> At this point I deleted the last two lines of the section and
> everything came good. Then I put the section back and it broke it. I
> renamed it from 'groups' to 'tgroups' and it started working again. I
> then changed it to 'groupstest' and it still triggered an error.
>
> Subversion 1.2 (CentOS 4) was working happily with this, both 1.4.2
> (CentOS 4 packages) and 1.6.6 (RPMForge) exhibited the incorrect
> behaviour.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sam
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