Bug#345819: subversion: README.db4.3 needs to cover ownership issues

[Ross Boylan]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-3
Severity: minor


Running as root, I followed the instructions in README.db4.3 to
upgrade.  subversion, via apache, could not read the result.  Once I
did chown -R www-data on the appropriate directory everything was OK.

Since the instructions guide you to performing the operations as root,
it would be useful to add a step about changing the ownership.  I'm
not sure exactly what the right advice is, since I'm not sure if the
repository is reliably owned by www-data.

In addition, the instructions might say to note the file ownership and
permissions before the transformation.

Another possibility is to do the relevant operations as the
appropriate user.

Minimally, the instructions could just say to be aware of ownership
and permission issues.  I know that's pretty obvious, but I managed to
miss it :)

Finally, perhaps it's a bug or missing feature in the db4.x utils that
they don't preserve ownership when upgrading.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27adnvcd
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  db4.3-util                 4.3.29-3      Berkeley v4.3 Database Utilities
ii  libapr0                    2.0.55-3      the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                      2.3.5-8       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libneon24                  0.24.7.dfsg-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libsvn0                    1.2.3dfsg1-3  shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  patch                      2.5.9-2       Apply a diff file to an original

subversion recommends no packages.

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