Bug: Create New Web Fails with useRcsDir

Create New Web gives "Error: Could not copy topics to the new web

The new web has been created, however not all topics could be copied from the base web.

Error message: Copy file ( /home/twiki/www/data/_default/WebChanges.txt,v, /home/twiki/www/data/Bayarea/WebChanges.txt,v ) failed, error: No such file or directory."

Test case

Create new installation with useRcsDir=1 and RCS dirs created according to installation guide. Figure out how to become an administrator (separate thread please ) and create a new web.

Environment

-- DavidKing - 27 Aug 2003

Follow up

Co-incidentally, I was trying to investigate why the latest revision always seems to be 1.1 no matter how many times a topic has been edited. It turns out that you need to add a line to TWiki.cfg:

@storeSettings =
  (
    # RcsLite and Rcs
    dataDir         => $TWiki::dataDir,
    pubDir          => $TWiki::pubDir,
    useRcsDir       => $TWiki::useRcsDir, # added I Huneke 1 Sept 2003
    attachAsciiPath => "\.(txt|html|xml|pl)\$",

Maybe this would fix your problem too. An equivalent patch is described in DiffsRevertsToOneError.

Thanks, ImmoHuneke.

I see that you concur with JohnRouillard.

This proves there are at least two ways to solve DiffsRevertsToOneError. As a new twiki user, I had to step thru code to find the uninitialized value and put my fix there. You don't say whether this solution resolves CreateNewWebFailsWithUseRcsDir (this bug) but I'll try it when I get back to twiki.

Still, this class of error seems to be caused by redundancy in the config file. Maybe better to define important things once, like

  @storeSettings = (
    useRcsDir => 1,
  );

or move @storeSettings out of the config file (doesn't guarantee happiness) or use structs or something to verify at compile time that $self has what it needs...

I guess another way to see if $self{xyz} is undefined is to continually scan the web server logs.

-- DavidKing - 01 Sep 2003

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