Re: Permissions need for deletion

On 25 August 2016 at 11:50, Vacelet, Manuel <manuel.vacelet_at_enalean.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Vacelet, Manuel
> <manuel.vacelet_at_enalean.com> wrote:
>>
>> oops I hit shift+enter :/
>> see my message below
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Vacelet, Manuel
>> <manuel.vacelet_at_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

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Ivan Zhakov