[oe] SVN Fetcher Makes Invalid Assumptions

[Graeme Gregory]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:00:52AM -0500, Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just ran into a problem using the SVN fetcher with a project that breaks the 
> fetchers assumptions about how an SVN repository is structured.  The project 
> in question is phonon-vlc-mplayer 
> (http://code.google.com/p/phonon-vlc-mplayer/), which has released no 
> tarballs of the source (although it has released compiled binaries, go 
> figure).
> 
> The SVN fetcher assumes that all SVN repositories can be checked out 
> with "proto://url/module module", in other words that the module name is at 
> then end of the URL.  However, phonon-vlc-mplayer requires 
> using "http://phonon-vlc-mplayer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ 
> phonon-vlc-mplayer", in other words the module name is NOT part of the URL.
> 
> As a workaround, I'm checking out the SVN repository manually, tarring it up, 
> and putting into files/ for this package.  However, it seems like there 
> should be an option added to the SVN fetcher that will disable this module 
> appending behavior for projects like this.
> 
> Comments?
> 
We already have loads of recipes with this.

just remove the trunk from the URL and say module=trunk.

Graeme