[rancid] Adding new group/svn

[heasley]

Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 01:46:09PM -0500, Charles Sprickman:
> Hi,
> 
> I migrated to subversion a year or two ago.
> 
> Yesterday I wanted to add a new group for some customer equipment.
> 
> I added the group to rancid.conf (LIST_OF_GROUPS) and then ran “rancid-cvs” which should autocreate a new directory and add that directory to subversion.  The directory was created, but svn keeps throwing errors.  Any ideas on what is actually failing?
> 
> This is rancid 3.5.1 on FreeBSD (from ports).
> 
> Everything is under ~rancid, including the repo.
> 
> Here is the initial output from rancid-cvs:
> 
> [rancid at miko ~]$ /usr/local/libexec/rancid/rancid-cvs -f /usr/local/etc/rancid/rancid.conf
> svnadmin: E200011: Repository creation failed
> svnadmin: E200011: Could not create top-level directory
> svnadmin: E200011: '/home/rancid/SVN' exists and is non-empty

i presume premissions or how the migration was done.

> svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///home/rancid/SVN/customer-router'
> svn: E180001: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/rancid/SVN/customer-router'
> svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///home/rancid/SVN/customer-router'
> svn: E180001: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/rancid/SVN/customer-router'
> Skipped '.'
> svn: E155007: None of the targets are working copies
> svn: E155007: '/home/rancid/customer-router' is not a working copy
> svn: E155007: '/home/rancid/customer-router/configs' is not a working copy
> svn: E155007: '/home/rancid/customer-router' is not a working copy
> svn: E155007: '/home/rancid/customer-router/router.db' is not a working copy
> [rancid at miko ~]$
> 
> Any ideas?  All those paths are correct.  The existing repo is in /home/rancid/SVN.  Another group that’s working is in /home/rancid/routers.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
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