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Re: Difficulty with post-commit emails

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 21:03:17 +0100

Matthew Pounsett wrote on Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 14:43:40 -0400:
>
> Apologies if this is handled on the list recently, but I haven't had any luck googling an answer.. don't see anything in the manual either.
>
> Although I've done lots of upgrades, it's been a while since I installed a new subversion server completely from scratch, so I'm just now running into the fact that commit-email.py has been deprecated. commit-email.rb has no useful documentation .. not even a basic usage summary.. so I'm trying to get mailer.py working. I've run into an error I can't explain though, and I'm hoping someone has a pointer for me.
>
> This is using subversion 1.7.5 and the mailer.py and python bindings that come with it, both installed out of ports on a FreeBSD box.
>
> My mailer.conf file is present in the same directory as mailer.py, and is pretty much the default with the addition of a catch-all group at the end of the file:
>
> > diff mailer.conf.example mailer.conf
> 24c24
> < #smtp_hostname = localhost
> ---
> > smtp_hostname = localhost
> 361a362,365
> > [catchall]
> > for_repos = /var/svn/repos/(?P<repo>[^/]*)
> > to_addr = commit-%(repo)@conundrum.com
> > from_addr = svnadmin_at_conundrum.com
>
> I'm working with a test repository:
> > ls /var/svn/repos/svn-test/
> README.txt conf dav db format hooks locks
>
> Subversion is running as an Apache module, so I'm expecting mailer to be run by the www user. I get the following error:
> > sudo -u www ./mailer.py commit svn-test 10

Please confirm that $PWD was '/var/svn/repos' when you ran this command.

> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./mailer.py", line 1435, in <module>
> sys.argv[3:3+expected_args])
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/svn/core.py", line 307, in run_app
> return func(application_pool, *args, **kw)
> File "./mailer.py", line 100, in main
> repos = Repository(repos_dir, revision, pool)
> File "./mailer.py", line 1116, in __init__
> self.repos_ptr = svn.repos.open(repos_dir, pool)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsvn/repos.py", line 212, in svn_repos_open
> return _repos.svn_repos_open(*args)
> svn.core.SubversionException: 2 - Can't open file 'svn-test/format': No such file or directory
>
>
> The file svn-test/format is clearly present. This isn't just environment.. I get the same error passed back when mailer.py is run by a post-commit script. Is there something else here I'm missing?
>
>

It seems you pass a wrong value for the "path to repository" parameter.
Received on 2012-07-09 22:03:55 CEST

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