[rancid] [PATCH 1/2] Better support for subversion repositories

[john heasley]

Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 03:36:45PM +0200, Zenon Mousmoulas:
> Improve subversion support:
> - Support arbitrary subversion URLs as (pre-provisioned) repositories.
> - Do not overwrite an existing local repository.
> - Avoid "svn: Directory '<GROUP>' is out of date" message.
>   Included for completeness, copied from Debian patch
>   by Nicolas DEFFAYET <nicolas-ml at deffayet.com>:
>   http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/dl/rancid/2.3.6-1/09_svn.dpatch
> 
> +++ rancid-2.3.6-grnet/bin/control_rancid.in	2011-11-26 00:12:08.000000000 +0200
> @@ -167,6 +167,12 @@
>      fi
>  fi
>  
> +# svn update to avoid 'Out of date' error
> +if [ $RCSSYS = svn ]
> +then
> +    svn update
> +fi

why is this necessary?  it should never be out of date, unless someone has
altered the repository, in which case you want to be alerted to that.