ikiwiki doesn't use installed Subversion

[geychaner@…]

If you install both the ikiwiki and Subversion ports, ikiwiki doesn't use the port version of Subversion. This is really bad if you're trying to pair ikiwiki with an existing Subversion repository on a Leopard machine; the /usr/bin/svn is 1.4.4, while the latest is 1.6.12.

The problem can apparently be fixed right at the top of /opt/local/bin/ikiwiki by changing the PATH variable, but I am still experimenting.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to cc the maintainer.

[tommyd@…]

As I have no use case for such a setup, please post a patch once you got it working. I'll happily apply it to the port then. Thank you!

[geychaner@…]

Diff to fix the ikiwiki path so that MacPorts is before /usr/bin

[geychaner@…]

The attached diff file fixes ikiwiki so that the MacPorts directory is ahead of /usr/bin, as it is on the standard $PATH. It's still rude of ikiwiki to override the $PATH variable like this; if it needs a directory on the path, it should simply modify the existing $PATH variable, e.g. $ENV{PATH} = '/opt/local/bin:' + $ENV{PATH}

[tommyd@…]

Thanks for the patch. I asked upstream (​http://ikiwiki.info/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment/) - lets see how it goes. Its easy enough to apply your patch though in case they don't want to change it in their code.

[geychaner@…]

Having joined the discussion upstream, the right way to solve this is to change the ENV in the ikiwiki wiki setup file, rather than hard-coding a particular PATH into the ikiwiki executable. This can be considered closed - feature, not a bug.