On 25 August 2016 at 12:19, Vacelet, Manuel <manuel.vace...@enalean.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote: >> >> On 25 August 2016 at 11:50, Vacelet, Manuel <manuel.vace...@enalean.com> >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Vacelet, Manuel >> > <manuel.vace...@enalean.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> oops I hit shift+enter :/ >> >> see my message below >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Vacelet, Manuel >> >> <manuel.vace...@enalean.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi all, >> >>> >> >>> I got a machine that was bumped from 1.6.x (centos6 default) to 1.8.16 >> >>> (thanks wandisco!). >> >>> I identified a change of behaviour but failed to find an explanation >> >>> in >> >>> book or change log. >> >>> >> >>> Here we go, given a SVNAccessFile like: >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------->8------------- >> >> [groups] >> >> members = alice >> >> admin = bob >> >> >> >> [/] >> >> * = >> >> @members = r >> >> @admin = rw >> >> >> >> [/tags] >> >> @members = rw >> >> -------------8<------------- >> >> >> >> WIth svn 1.6, as alice, I cannot rm /tags >> >> Whereas with svn 1.8 I now can. >> >> >> >> Is this detailed somewhere ? >> > >> > >> > Fun fact: the behaviour change also depending on the version of svn >> > client >> > used. >> > For a given svn 1.8 server, I can delete /tags with svn 1.7, 1.8 & svn >> > 1.9 >> > client but not with svn 1.6. >> > I failed to find in 1.7 release note something that explains this >> > change. >> > >> It was bug in Subversion 1.7 that remove operation requires access to >> repository root: >> SVN-4219: svn delete fails with "403 Forbidden" if root is not readable >> [1] >> >> This problem was fixed in Subversion 1.8. It's not server-side change. >> It was client problem accessing repository root, while it's not >> needed. >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4219 >> > > Thanks for your reply, but according to my tests, the behaviour is > consistent with clients >1.7: > server 1.8: > * client 1.6: cannot rm > * client >1.7: can rm > > server 1.6: > * client >1.6: cannot rm > > Moreove, alice does have access to root in this case (but only in read). > You are right. The issue was fixed in Subversion 1.7.9 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4332
(I've checked wrong duplicated issue before) -- Ivan Zhakov
