(Sorry if this appears twice; I submitted it first via news, but I never saw it appear. I joined the mailing list in the meantime, so here's a second attempt.)
Background: I have a Debian system running potato. I have some experience running Linux systems, mostly RedHat, but I'm pretty new to Debian and its package management. What I'm trying to do: I am trying to set up a Subversion repository (see http://subversion.tigris.org) and client. Subversion is still pre-release, so it's essential to build it from latest sources. It requires a lot of the 'latest stuff' related to Apache in order to work. What I've done so far: A Subversion repository is accessed through a web server via webdav, and requires the latest Apache release. So using dselect, I uninstalled all Apache-related packages in potato, got the latest Apache sources, and built and installed Apache2 from scratch. So far so good. What I need to do: I need to build the Subversion client. What I'm stuck on: When running configure on the Subversion sources, I'm told that I need expat or libxml >= 1.8.3. Neither potato nor woody are up to libxml 1.8.3. (I was considering upgrading to woody before I noticed this -- not a decision to be taken lightly, since I live behind a modem!) (And finally...) My questions: What's the best way to go about getting and installing libxml 1.8.3 or greater, given that it's not available as a package -- or if it *is* available as a package, it'll be in a distribution that I don't want to point dselect at? (I already went through a few hours of insanity when I made the mistake of pointing dselect at 'testing' temporarily.) In general, how do software developers handle these situations on Debian -- needing to install the latest-and-greatest of a library or tool (and possibly associated dependencies), esp. when there might be 'official' Debian versions of the same software installed already? I want to avoid conflicting with dselect's management of the system as far as possible. I suspect that Debian developers have to deal with this sort of problem all the time... Thanks in advance for any insights! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
