[CentOS] Upgrading subversion

Paul Heinlein
Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:02:28 -0000

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Ronan Lucio wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.

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