[MacPorts] #34832: PORT/work/.home/.subversion and proxy access

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#34832: PORT/work/.home/.subversion and proxy access
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 Reporter:  mthomas+macports@…               |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                           |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                           |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  base                             |     Version:  2.1.1                                
 Keywords:                                   |        Port:                                       
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 When attempting to "port fetch netpbm", I kept getting an error that svn
 was unable to contact the server.  (Relevant part of log attached.)

 I could not understand what was happening because running the svn command
 from the prompt worked as expected.  (My install of ports are installed as
 a normal user account, not using sudo).

 Since I access the internet via a proxy, I suspected that the svn command
 that "port" was running was not seeing my proxy settings, despite having
 set the proxy in my environment, in the
 /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf file, and in ~/.subversion/server.

 The issue appears to be that the temporary subversion configuration files
 created in .../netpbm/work/.home/.subversion/server do not include the
 proxy setting.  When I edited that file to include my proxy setting, I was
 able to fetch the netpbm sources.

 It took me a while to diagnose the problem.  Had the debugging output
 included some indication that a fake home directory had been created while
 running subversion, the issue would have been easier to diagnose.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34832>
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