https://svn.lrde.epita.fr/svn/lrde-tools/trunk/build-farm This is to avoid relying on Subversion's .svn/entries files (to get this revision number), whose format in not fixed, according to the project team. Index: ChangeLog from Roland Levillain &lt;roland(a)lrde.epita.fr&gt; * maintainer/update_unpacked (SVN_LATEST_REV): New variable. For each package, store the latest revision number in the working copy. update_unpacked | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: maintainer/update_unpacked --- maintainer/update_unpacked (revision 434) +++ maintainer/update_unpacked (working copy) @@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ # Update svn working copies of rsync's unpacked directory. - +# The central pool of working copies, rsync'd by the build farm hosts. SVN_PATH="/work/master/unpacked" # List of packages with the corresponding URL. SVN_PACKAGES="/work/master/maintainer/packages" +# The name of the file holding the the latest revision +SVN_LATEST_REV=",latest-svn-revision" ( cd "$SVN_PATH" @@ -24,5 +26,13 @@ rm -rf "$package.old" fi + # Store the latest revision number in the working copy. + rm -f "$SVN_LATEST_REV" + env LANG=C svn status -Nv $package \ + | perl -n \ + -e "print \"\$1\n\"" \ + -e " if (s/\\s*(\\d+)\\s+\\d+\\s+\\S+\\s+$package\$/\\1/)" \ + >"$package/$SVN_LATEST_REV" + done < $SVN_PACKAGES )