SACONFIG="$BASEDIR/spamassassin_config";
BAKDIR="$BASEDIR/spamassassin_config_bak";
+# because alioth continuously fails, make sure that svn info will
+# succeed first before cluttering the log. Ideally we would report
+# this error, but it happens far too frequently, so we bail out here.
+if ! svn info $(svn info $SACONFIG|awk '/^URL:/{print $2}') >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ exit 0;
+fi;
+
# figure out if there's an update to be made
ORIGREV=$(svn info $SACONFIG |awk '/^Revision:/{print $2}')
NEWREV=$(svn info $(svn info $SACONFIG|awk '/^URL:/{print $2}')|awk '/^Revision:/{print $2}')