Re: [viewvc-users] mutiple root_parents and authzfile

On 01/18/2011 09:31 AM, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> but if I correctly understand you , having multiple authzfile corresponding
> to each root_parents  is not possible ?

You understand me correctly.

> Alternatively, as you suggested, I tried to use a single authz file for both
> roots, but now I get no view of any repository :-( , perhaps, I
> missconfigure the concat authz file
> here is the situation, I have 2 svn repo roots:
> /var/svn/staff
> /var/svn/stud
> 
> below /var/svn/staff there's a  "AuthzSVNAccessFile" (apache terminology)
> and dozens of repos like /var/svn/staff/rep1 , /var/svn/staff/rep2 etc ...
> Identically for /var/svn/stud, /var/svn/stud/root_authz, /var/svn/stud/rep1
> /var/svn/stud/rep2 ...
> 
> My  /var/svn/super_root_authz pointed by
> [authz-svnauthz]
> authzfile = /var/svn/super_root_authz
> 
> contains repo definitions like that
> 
> [staff/rep1:/]
> user1 = rw

ViewVC is going to try to match the "name" of the repository against the
repository name inside the authz file.  The "name" of the repository is
going to be its basename on disk.  Thus, the "name" of the repository at
/var/svn/stud/rep1 is "rep1".  So your authz file will need to use "rep1" as
the repository name, too, not "stud/rep1".

You might at this point think, "Uh-oh.  I have two repositories which will
have the same name because their basenames are identical."  For example,
maybe you have /var/svn/stud/team-repo and /var/svn/staff/team-repo.  Yes,
that will be a problem for ViewVC -- one of those repositories will be
inaccessible to ViewVC.

If the above doesn't work for you, then it's *possible* that you can make
this work via another workaround, namely, instead of defining authzfile like so:

   [authz-svnauthz]
   authzfile = /some/path

You use per-root configuration to specify, for each and every individual
repository, which authz file consult:

   [root-rep1/authz-svnauthz]
   authzfile = /some/path

   [root-rep2/authz-svnauthz]
   authzfile = /some/other/path

But I've not tried this myself, and I know that per-root configuration
overrides have had a history of being broken in various ways.  And of
course, the downside is that every time you add a new repository, you have
to remember to add configuration for it in viewvc.conf, too.  :-(

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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