older versions of the subversion server
Hi, I am trying to install an older version of subversion (1.4.2) on two Linux systems Ubuntu and Red Hat ( 2.6.31-20-generic Ubuntu and 2.6.18-164.el5 ) and I am having a hard time locating the older version packages for subversion. I tried both the Ubuntu and Red Hat repositories and the subversion website. Can you please tell me if these packages are still available for download? Thank you, Alin
Re: older versions of the subversion server
That is a very good question. Our subversion server has not been updated in a while and it is still on version 1.4.2. I was looking into updating it to take advantage of the new merge tracking features (among others). Since we are using such an old version, I wanted to replicate our production environment on a test server (thus requiring version 1.4.2) and performing the upgrade there first. Do you think I am being overly cautious? What are the chances for a problem to occur in the upgrade process? Thank you, Alin -Original Message- From: Ryan Schmidt To: Tomoiaga, Alin Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: older versions of the subversion server Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:13:32 -0500 On Jun 16, 2010, at 11:11, Alin wrote: > I am trying to install an older version of subversion (1.4.2) on two Linux > systems Ubuntu and Red Hat ( 2.6.31-20-generic Ubuntu and 2.6.18-164.el5 ) > and I am having a hard time locating the older version packages for > subversion. > I tried both the Ubuntu and Red Hat repositories and the subversion website. > Can you please tell me if these packages are still available for download? Certainly the source is still available from the Subversion project's web site. Not sure where you'd get older precompiled packages for various OSes. Note that Subversion 1.4.x and earlier are unsupported by now, and when 1.7.0 comes out, support for 1.5.x will be dropped. Why do you need to use such an old version?
Re: older versions of the subversion server
Ryan and Thomas, Thank you very much for your advice. -Original Message- From: Ryan Schmidt To: Thomas Loy Cc: Tomoiaga, Alin , users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: older versions of the subversion server Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:24:56 -0500 On Jun 17, 2010, at 15:18, Thomas Loy wrote: > On the bright side, we had virtually no issues on our upgrade – the major > issue was trying to get all of our users to upgrade their clients. There is at least a way you can automate advising your users to upgrade to Subverison 1.5 or later if they have 1.4.x or earlier: the start-commit hook script. This hook script will be passed a list of client capabilities; if the client capabilities do not include mergeinfo, you know it's older than 1.5. You could at that point abort the commit and print an error message advising the user to upgrade their client. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.reposhooks.start-commit.html I don't know of a way to detect the client version beyond that, though. And unfortunately early versions of 1.5.x weren't totally satisfactory for merge tracking, so you really do want your clients to be the latest version.
Restore SVN server from files
Hello everyone, I had a RAID 5 storage, and I used to have a SVN server on this. Unfortunately the RAID layout failed. I succeeded to the data from my server including the folder where I created the SVN repositories. Now that I have the files from repositories, what is the correct plan for re-installing the SVN server in a different location? Thank you, Alin ILIE
Re: Restore SVN server from files
The backup transfer to a different machine did not worked, and I didn't notice this. :( Got it ! 1) Install SVN on a new linux server 2) Configure SVN 3) Place the files recovered in the place where I defined repositories home in the step 2 4) If I will change the server URL, I have to run svn relocate or svn switch --relocate according to the version that I will have on the new server. MANY THANKS, Alin On 3/19/2012 9:43 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: Am 18.03.2012 14:49, schrieb Alin ILIE: I had a RAID 5 storage, and I used to have a SVN server on this. Unfortunately the RAID layout failed. I succeeded to the data from my server including the folder where I created the SVN repositories. Now that I have the files from repositories, what is the correct plan for re-installing the SVN server in a different location? Note up front: Backup. SVN will not save you from the possibility of data loss, just as your RAID didn't. Now, in order to get the repos back online, just install an according server (svnserve or Apache) and configure it so that it can find the repos. Basically, you follow the instructions to set up a server but skip the step where you create the repositories. If the name of the machine changed or the URL where it serves the repositories, all working copies will have become unusable, you will have to tell them about the changed server URL with "svn relocate" (SVN 1.7) or "svn switch --relocate" (SVN <= 1.6). Uli ** Domino Laser GmbH, Fangdieckstra�e 75a, 22547 Hamburg, Deutschland Gesch�ftsf�hrer: Thorsten F�cking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 ** Visit our website at http://www.dominolaser.com ** Diese E-Mail einschlie�lich s�mtlicher Anh�nge ist nur f�r den Adressaten bestimmt und kann vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie den Absender umgehend, falls Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empf�nger sein sollten. Die E-Mail ist in diesem Fall zu l�schen und darf weder gelesen, weitergeleitet, ver�ffentlicht oder anderweitig benutzt werden. E-Mails k�nnen durch Dritte gelesen werden und Viren sowie nichtautorisierte �nderungen enthalten. Domino Laser GmbH ist f�r diese Folgen nicht verantwortlich. **
