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+# ex:ts=4:sw=4:sts=4:et
+# -*- tab-width: 4; c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
+"""
+BitBake 'Fetch' implementation for svn.
+
+"""
+
+# Copyright (C) 2003, 2004  Chris Larson
+# Copyright (C) 2004        Marcin Juszkiewicz
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+#
+# Based on functions from the base bb module, Copyright 2003 Holger Schurig
+
+import os
+import sys
+import logging
+import bb
+import re
+from   bb import data
+from   bb.fetch2 import FetchMethod
+from   bb.fetch2 import FetchError
+from   bb.fetch2 import MissingParameterError
+from   bb.fetch2 import runfetchcmd
+from   bb.fetch2 import logger
+
+class Svn(FetchMethod):
+    """Class to fetch a module or modules from svn repositories"""
+    def supports(self, ud, d):
+        """
+        Check to see if a given url can be fetched with svn.
+        """
+        return ud.type in ['svn']
+
+    def urldata_init(self, ud, d):
+        """
+        init svn specific variable within url data
+        """
+        if not "module" in ud.parm:
+            raise MissingParameterError('module', ud.url)
+
+        ud.basecmd = d.getVar('FETCHCMD_svn', True)
+
+        ud.module = ud.parm["module"]
+
+        # Create paths to svn checkouts
+        relpath = self._strip_leading_slashes(ud.path)
+        ud.pkgdir = os.path.join(data.expand('${SVNDIR}', d), ud.host, relpath)
+        ud.moddir = os.path.join(ud.pkgdir, ud.module)
+
+        ud.setup_revisons(d)
+
+        if 'rev' in ud.parm:
+            ud.revision = ud.parm['rev']
+
+        ud.localfile = data.expand('%s_%s_%s_%s_.tar.gz' % (ud.module.replace('/', '.'), ud.host, ud.path.replace('/', '.'), ud.revision), d)
+
+    def _buildsvncommand(self, ud, d, command):
+        """
+        Build up an svn commandline based on ud
+        command is "fetch", "update", "info"
+        """
+
+        proto = ud.parm.get('protocol', 'svn')
+
+        svn_rsh = None
+        if proto == "svn+ssh" and "rsh" in ud.parm:
+            svn_rsh = ud.parm["rsh"]
+
+        svnroot = ud.host + ud.path
+
+        options = []
+
+        options.append("--no-auth-cache")
+
+        if ud.user:
+            options.append("--username %s" % ud.user)
+
+        if ud.pswd:
+            options.append("--password %s" % ud.pswd)
+
+        if command == "info":
+            svncmd = "%s info %s %s://%s/%s/" % (ud.basecmd, " ".join(options), proto, svnroot, ud.module)
+        elif command == "log1":
+            svncmd = "%s log --limit 1 %s %s://%s/%s/" % (ud.basecmd, " ".join(options), proto, svnroot, ud.module)
+        else:
+            suffix = ""
+            if ud.revision:
+                options.append("-r %s" % ud.revision)
+                suffix = "@%s" % (ud.revision)
+
+            if command == "fetch":
+                transportuser = ud.parm.get("transportuser", "")
+                svncmd = "%s co %s %s://%s%s/%s%s %s" % (ud.basecmd, " ".join(options), proto, transportuser, svnroot, ud.module, suffix, ud.module)
+            elif command == "update":
+                svncmd = "%s update %s" % (ud.basecmd, " ".join(options))
+            else:
+                raise FetchError("Invalid svn command %s" % command, ud.url)
+
+        if svn_rsh:
+            svncmd = "svn_RSH=\"%s\" %s" % (svn_rsh, svncmd)
+
+        return svncmd
+
+    def download(self, ud, d):
+        """Fetch url"""
+
+        logger.debug(2, "Fetch: checking for module directory '" + ud.moddir + "'")
+
+        if os.access(os.path.join(ud.moddir, '.svn'), os.R_OK):
+            svnupdatecmd = self._buildsvncommand(ud, d, "update")
+            logger.info("Update " + ud.url)
+            # update sources there
+            os.chdir(ud.moddir)
+            # We need to attempt to run svn upgrade first in case its an older working format
+            try:
+                runfetchcmd(ud.basecmd + " upgrade", d)
+            except FetchError:
+                pass
+            logger.debug(1, "Running %s", svnupdatecmd)
+            bb.fetch2.check_network_access(d, svnupdatecmd, ud.url)
+            runfetchcmd(svnupdatecmd, d)
+        else:
+            svnfetchcmd = self._buildsvncommand(ud, d, "fetch")
+            logger.info("Fetch " + ud.url)
+            # check out sources there
+            bb.utils.mkdirhier(ud.pkgdir)
+            os.chdir(ud.pkgdir)
+            logger.debug(1, "Running %s", svnfetchcmd)
+            bb.fetch2.check_network_access(d, svnfetchcmd, ud.url)
+            runfetchcmd(svnfetchcmd, d)
+
+        scmdata = ud.parm.get("scmdata", "")
+        if scmdata == "keep":
+            tar_flags = ""
+        else:
+            tar_flags = "--exclude '.svn'"
+
+        os.chdir(ud.pkgdir)
+        # tar them up to a defined filename
+        runfetchcmd("tar %s -czf %s %s" % (tar_flags, ud.localpath, ud.module), d, cleanup = [ud.localpath])
+
+    def clean(self, ud, d):
+        """ Clean SVN specific files and dirs """
+
+        bb.utils.remove(ud.localpath)
+        bb.utils.remove(ud.moddir, True)
+        
+
+    def supports_srcrev(self):
+        return True
+
+    def _revision_key(self, ud, d, name):
+        """
+        Return a unique key for the url
+        """
+        return "svn:" + ud.moddir
+
+    def _latest_revision(self, ud, d, name):
+        """
+        Return the latest upstream revision number
+        """
+        bb.fetch2.check_network_access(d, self._buildsvncommand(ud, d, "log1"))
+
+        output = runfetchcmd("LANG=C LC_ALL=C " + self._buildsvncommand(ud, d, "log1"), d, True)
+
+        # skip the first line, as per output of svn log
+        # then we expect the revision on the 2nd line
+        revision = re.search('^r([0-9]*)', output.splitlines()[1]).group(1)
+
+        return revision
+
+    def sortable_revision(self, ud, d, name):
+        """
+        Return a sortable revision number which in our case is the revision number
+        """
+
+        return False, self._build_revision(ud, d)
+
+    def _build_revision(self, ud, d):
+        return ud.revision