subversion and https in Ubuntu Karmic

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Posted Wed, 20/01/2010 - 17:29 by angch

Had a problem checking out an https subversion repository (self-signed) in Ubuntu Karmic, while Hardy is fine.

In short:

  • svn Hardy uses ra_dav for https
  • svn Karmic uses ra_neon (and libneon27-gnutls) for https.

gnutls is particularly sensitive about certs. So we need to work around it.

So do a:

sudo apt-get install libneon27
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libneon.so.27 /usr/bin/svn co https://myserver/myrepo
(use alias svn='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libneon.so.27 /usr/bin/svn')

Above fix comes from:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/subversion/+bug/294648