<html>#2396: potential issue with GitHub svn checkouts on Ubuntu
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<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Reporter:</td><td>Roland Haas</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Status:</td><td>new</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Milestone:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Version:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Type:</td><td>bug</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Priority:</td><td>minor</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Component:</td><td>GetComponents</td></tr>
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<p>While testing the ET on various Linux distributions <span class="ap-mention" data-atlassian-id="557058:1671c5c3-29cc-4e83-9850-a152d33a6235">@Steven R. Brandt</span> found that, with some level of repeatability, checking out ExternalLibraries hosted on GitHub via svn would lead to error messages of the form</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="n">Warning</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="n">Could</span> <span class="n">not</span> <span class="n">checkout</span> <span class="n">module</span> <span class="n">ExternalLibraries</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">OpenBLAS</span>
<span class="n">svn</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="n">E170000</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="n">URL</span> <span class="s1">'https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/ExternalLibraries-OpenBLAS.git/trunk'</span> <span class="n">doesn</span><span class="err">'</span><span class="n">t</span> <span class="n">exist</span>
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<p>Directly calling <code>svn info</code> on the repository URL gives:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>svn info https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/ExternalLibraries-OpenBLAS.git/trunk
svn: warning: W170000: URL 'https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/ExternalLibraries-OpenBLAS.git/trunk' non-existent in revision 233
svn: E200009: Could not display info for all targets because some targets don't exist
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<p>indicating that svn could talk to the GtiHub server, otherwise it would not know of the revision number 233, but somehow was told that there is nothing present.</p>
<p>This does not happen with Fedora, Centos 7, OpenSuSE, Debian and was so far only observed on Ubuntu (16.04 and 20.04) and Mint.</p>
<p><span class="ap-mention" data-atlassian-id="557058:59e031ba-9bb5-4298-a472-7b99d0ae6f22">@Roland Haas</span> confirmed the issue in a Ubuntu VM ruling out networking issues.</p>
<p>The same svn version (version 1.13.0 (r1867053)) works without problems on a Debian laptop.</p>
<p>If this persists we may wan
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Ticket URL: <a href='https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2396/potential-issue-with-github-svn-checkouts'>https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2396/potential-issue-with-github-svn-checkouts</a></p>
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