On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:46 AM, David Hrbáč <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dne 5.4.2012 04:18, Nico Kadel-Garcia napsal(a): > > RHEL 4 hasn't had a public Subversion update in a long time, and for > > good reasons. (It's hard!) > > > > I've taken some of Mike Brauer's work, some Repoforge work, and tied > > it to my Fedora 16 backport work I was pursuing before Subversion 1.7 > > was released, and come up with..... > > > > https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.6.17-srpm > > > > The tools, not the tarballs, are all present there to build clean > > SRPM's and RPM's for Repoforge compatibility. > > > > Enjoy, and let me know if I can help get it into Repoforge. It's > > particularly helpful for people who want a clean Subverrion to help > > migrate *OFF* of RHEL 4. > > > > Nico, > Maybe I don't just get it right. I guess we can stop to support EL3/EL4. > Are there any issues with the old version? BTW repo seems to be empty. > DH > Thanks, I just fixed that. (Pushed to the wrong upstream). The last Red Hat published subversion for RHEL 4 was 1.1.4. That lacks really important features, such as the "ask before storing local passwords in cleartext" feature of 1.6, serious performance upgrades, Unicode log handling, and it lacks very useful "svn checkout --force" option so useful to purhing a Subversion working copy onto an existing directory. It also lacks the new svn:externals syntax, and has fallen so far off the support tree it makes me weep when I have to use it. I use the "svn checkout --force" option for things like Nagios configurations, yum configuraitons, and BIND with chroot cages to set up on new servers. (I'm actually planning on presenting on that last one at svnday in Berlin this summer.) A newer Subversoin is also really, really useful if you have working copies in NFS on RHEL 5 or RHEL 6, and you'd like to be able to use or manipulate the same working copy on RHEL 4. *THAT* is really useful for helping migrate off of RHEL 4, which is now only supported with an "extended" contract, but getting people off of obsolete operating systems seems to have been a major hobby of mine for.... dang... 24 years.
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