problem saving https test certificates with subversion and neon 0.29

[Till Korten]

Till Korten schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> on my gentoo maching with subversion 1.6.6 and neon 0.29, subversion 
> fails to save test certificates
>
> at home I have a test server with a subversion repository set up. 
> everything
> used to work fine after accepting the certificate permanently. (using the
> client on the same machine) However, recently subversion keeps asking 
> whether I
> would like to accept the certificate but won't offer to save the 
> certificate
> permanently:
> - The certificate hostname does not match.
> - The certificate has expired.
> - The certificate has an unknown error.
> Certificate information:
> - Hostname: *.example.net
> - Valid: from Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT until Wed, 15 Sep 2010 
> 23:59:59
> GMT
> - Issuer:
> - Fingerprint: 
> d2:d6:76:ee:7c:b1:87:ce:28:6a:0e:eb:c5:03:87:30:cf:1d:a7:b9
> (R)eject or accept (t)emporarily?
>
> The "certificate has an unknown error" message is new and the 
> (p)ermanently
> option is missing.
>
> someone in this mailing list:
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-11/0126.shtml
> recommended to downgrade neon to 0.28.x which
> worked.
>
> Cheers
>
> Till
>
the problem seems to have resolved itself after other packages 
(including bash, perl and python) were upgraded (and neon and subversion 
were recompiled).

cheers

till