CentOS - Dec 2009 - Subversion server: v1.4 (centos) vs. v1.6 (rpmforge)

Hi,

I'm planning to upgrade an old public/internal development
infrastructure and will use CentOS 5.4 x86_64 as basis.

One of the critical server is Subversion (as an Apache httpd module).
We currently use Subversion v1.4 on the server and v1.6 on our clients.

While I was very happy with the v1.4 server over the years, we now
sometimes have weird issues which seem related to compatibility with
the v1.6 clients (typically working copy depth related).
I also want to take the chance of this major overhaul of our
infrastructure (and related testing etc.) to upgrade the various
components and I'll be happy to benefit from Subversion improvements
on the server side as well (especially if it then the version in
production for another few years).

The Subversion version in CentOS 5.4 is v1.4, whereas RPMForge provides v1.6.
I use the RPMForge version as my client on the desktop.

- Has anyone of you experience running Subversion servers on CentOS?
- Would you in general consider as less secure / safe / stable to use
RPMForge packages for such critical tasks?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Mathieu

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 10:22 +0100, Mathieu Baudier
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm planning to upgrade an old public/internal development
> infrastructure and will use CentOS 5.4 x86_64 as basis.
> 
> One of the critical server is Subversion (as an Apache httpd module).
> We currently use Subversion v1.4 on the server and v1.6 on our clients.
> 
> While I was very happy with the v1.4 server over the years, we now
> sometimes have weird issues which seem related to compatibility with
> the v1.6 clients (typically working copy depth related).
> I also want to take the chance of this major overhaul of our
> infrastructure (and related testing etc.) to upgrade the various
> components and I'll be happy to benefit from Subversion improvements
> on the server side as well (especially if it then the version in
> production for another few years).
> 
> The Subversion version in CentOS 5.4 is v1.4, whereas RPMForge provides
v1.6.
> I use the RPMForge version as my client on the desktop.
> 
> - Has anyone of you experience running Subversion servers on CentOS?
> - Would you in general consider as less secure / safe / stable to use
> RPMForge packages for such critical tasks?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
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I am a lightweight user of SVN

I always use the rpmforge version of svn server

Craig


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On 12/15/2009 4:22 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to upgrade an old public/internal development
> infrastructure and will use CentOS 5.4 x86_64 as basis.
>
> The Subversion version in CentOS 5.4 is v1.4, whereas RPMForge provides
v1.6.
> I use the RPMForge version as my client on the desktop.
>
> - Has anyone of you experience running Subversion servers on CentOS?
Yes, when we upgraded to SVN 1.6 on the server, we moved from our old 
Linux box to CentOS.  We did a svn dump/load cycle to move from the 1.4 
server to the 1.6 server.  And kept the 1.4 dump files for posterity.
> - Would you in general consider as less secure / safe / stable to use
> RPMForge packages for such critical tasks?
Nope.  Works fine.  Between the nightly hot-copy backups and the 
internal design of the SVN FSFS storage engine, I'm not terribly worried.

(We took advantage of repository sharding in 1.6, which is why we did a 
svn dump/load method.  If we didn't need sharding, we probably could've 
just copied the directory tree across from the 1.4 to the 1.6 server.)