SVN Setup on Bitnami Windows distribution. No SVN/Subversion "Repository type" selectable.

[dac]

Hi All,

I have successfully installed the Bitnami distribution on a Windows 2012 r2 server, to D:\ProgramFiles\Bitnami\reviewboard-2.5.9-0
I am not a python native, but believe I have done the right thing by installing the py27-pysvn-svn194-1.9.3-1884-Win32.exe to D:\ProgramFiles\Bitnami\reviewboard-2.5.9-0\python\Lib\site-packages\pysvn.
The CollabNetSubversion-client-1.9.5-1-Win32.exe distribution has been installed to "D:\ProgramFiles\CollabNet\Subversion Client", and this folder exists on the PATH.

But in the Admin DashBoard ->Add repository->Repository Type, SVN/Subversion is not one of the options.

Does anyone know how to have SVN setup for Review Board on a Windows Server? Or how Review Board determines the existence of SVN?

I realise that Review Board is recommended for *NIX environments, but unfortunately I am required to have this deployed in a windows environment, otherwise I will have to find a different product.

Cheers,
Damien.

[Christian Hammond]

Hi,

The Bitnami installation should have included everything you need for Subversion. It's likely that installing a custom PySVN would have resulted in problems. The reason being that on Windows, both Python and the compiled Python modules you use must generally all be compiled using the same compiler. This is certainly the case with PySVN.

I'd suggest uninstalling the Bitnami-provided Review Board and ensuring that the directory is completely empty, then re-installing Review Board, see if PySVN shows up in that case. If not, the Bitnami team would have to help you, because this is very environment-dependent on Windows.

Christian

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[dac]

Christian,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately Bitnami refers to reviewboard.org for resolution. While the following link is not my post, it is exactly the issue that I am facing
https://community.bitnami.com/t/how-can-i-select-subversion-from-repository-type-list/47824

I will add a comment to the Bitnami post to see if there is any further information forthcoming.

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[Christian Hammond]

Hi,

 It's definitely an issue with the installation. The Python entrypoints are likely not registered in the environment, and that's on their end. Entrypoints are a Python feature allowing applications/modules to register entries in a common place that can be looked up by other applications/modules, for extensibility purposes. This will affect the list of repository types (there should be many in there), hosting services, authentication backends, extensions, and more. If these are empty, then the package was either not installed correctly in their environment, or was disrupted in yours somehow.

Let's verify that's the cause. Can you go into the Authentication Settings and see what types of auth backends there are?

Christian

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[dac]

One the http://reviewboard.corp/reviewboard/admin/settings/authentication/ page, I have "Standard Registration" and "Legacy Authentication Module" available.
BTW, I have reviewed the logs and see the following error occurring (once again, while I have experience in many other languages, python is not one of them, so I'm not sure if this is relevant)

[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016] ERROR:root:Error loading authentication backend x509: pytz 2014.4 is installed but pytz>=2015.2 is required by []
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]   File "D:\\ProgramFiles\\Bitnami\\reviewboard-2.5.9-0\\apps\\reviewboard\\htdocs\\Lib\\site-packages\\ReviewBoard-2.5.9-py2.7.egg\\reviewboard\\accounts\\backends.py", line 935, in _populate_defaults
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]     cls = entry.load()
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]   File "build\\bdist.win32\\egg\\pkg_resources.py", line 2182, in load
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]     self.require(env, installer)
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]   File "build\\bdist.win32\\egg\\pkg_resources.py", line 2196, in require
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]     items = working_set.resolve(reqs, env, installer)
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]   File "build\\bdist.win32\\egg\\pkg_resources.py", line 632, in resolve
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016]     raise VersionConflict(tmpl % args)
[Wed May 24 09:30:40.181811 2017] [:error] [pid 1272:tid 1016] VersionConflict: pytz 2014.4 is installed but pytz>=2015.2 is required by []

[Christian Hammond]

That's the problem then. An incompatible pytz is installed. When there's a version conflict like this, it impacts anything scanned via Python entrypoints, preventing them from loading. If you can resolve this by upgrading pytz, the problem will go away.

It's entirely possible that Bitnami is shipping an older pytz and not a newer one, as we recently changed the dependencies for this.

I'll forward this thread on to Bitnami and see if they can address this.

Christian

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[dac]

Christian,

I have downloaded and installed a new version of pytz, I can now see all the other authentication types available and have event configured AD authentication successfully. However there is still no SVN option available for selection. This is the case on two separate installations.

I have a fresh install without a custom install of pysvn, and still no luck. While this is may be a Bitnami issue, I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on what to investigate next.

[Christian Hammond]

Hi Damien,

Can you check for more errors in the logs, and show me a listing of everything in the repository type list?

Christian

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[dac]

Christian,


"Team Foundation Server" and "Team Foundation Server (git)" are the only two entries in the "Repository type" drop down list.

I can no longer see anything obvious in the "D:\ProgramFiles\Bitnami\reviewboard-2.5.9-0\apache2\logs\error.log" log file.

[Christian Hammond]

Still the same problem then, I'm afraid. It's very likely that the entrypoints would need to be re-registered. You may have to re-install the Review Board package.

I've alerted Bitnami to the problem. They're going to be taking a look at it, see if they can get new builds out.

Christian

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[Christian Hammond]

Bitnami just let me know that they've released a new build fixing the pytz issue. I'd suggest doing a complete reinstall, ensuring all the old files are completely gone before installing the new build. See if that gets you any further.

Christian

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[Grant Shirreffs]

I don't know if you found a solution to this, but I encountered the same issue (on Windows), and it turned out to be that I had to install the 32-bit distribution of pysvn for Python 2.7.  The 64-bit version wouldn't install, as Python has only registered itself to the 32-bit registry.

http://tigris.org/files/documents/1233/49518/py27-pysvn-svn194-1.9.3-1884-Win32.exe

Hope this helps