I got to wondering why the "uname -a" output from my head slice no longer showed the SVN GRN after I had updated to subversion-1.7.0.1.

First thing I checked was that "svnversion" existed & worked; check.

Then I noticed the logic iin newvers.sh:

... for dir in /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin; do if [ -d "${SYSDIR}/.svn" -a -x "${dir}/svnversion" ] ; then svnversion=${dir}/svnversion break if [ -d "${SYSDIR}/../.git" -a -x "${dir}/git" ] ; then git_cmd="${dir}/git --git-dir=${SYSDIR}/../.git" break fi done ...

Well, as of subversion-1.7, we don't have a ".svn" directory in ${SYSDIR} any more -- it's only at the root of the working copy (/usr/src, in this case). So "svnversion" is never invoked.

So I've just hacked my copy to parallel the "git" stanza & look for ${SYSDIR}/../.svn, Not sure that's ideal, but there appears to be precedent.... :-}

It might be handy to resolve this prior to 9.0-RELEASE, I think.

Peace, david

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