[CentOS] Upgrading subversion

Sun Nov 19 00:02:43 UTC 2006
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Ronan Lucio wrote:
> 
> > Id like to install subversion system in our server (CentOS-4.4)
> > 
> > up2date has the subversion-1.1.4-2, but subversion is already on 
> > verson 1.4.2
> > 
> > Perhaps I loose good features if I install subversion-1.1.x, but I 
> > prefer to use the version delivered by up2date, of course.
> > 
> > 1) What do you suggest?
> > 
> > If I try to install subversion-1.4.2 from source it asks for apr and 
> > apr-util version 0.9.7 or above but up2date has apr and apr-util 
> > version 0.9.4
> > 
> > 2) If I upgrade it via RPM could I have some compatibilty breaked?
> 
> I haven't gone all the way to 1.4.x, but dag/rpmforge have a nice set 
> of 1.3.2 packages that I dropped into our environment (including Trac 
> and Apache-mediated repositories) without any problems whatsoever.

It's not that easy to make subversion 1.4 packages for CentOS 4 or lower. 
You need apr >= 0.9.7. subversion 1.3.2 included a suitable apr and built 
it as part of the process, however subversion 1.4 does no longer...

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