Re: revamping an 0.14.0 repo

Hamilton Link <hamlink@nmia.com> writes:

> So I *could* go back to 0.14.0 rev something, build everything all over
> again, dump my repo, re-"make install" 0.14.2 again, and load my repo,
> but I'm wondering if there's an easier way.

What you describe is the recommended repository upgrade method.

> When I try to just use the latest svn with my old repo it says I'm
> missing the "format" file, and if I put a dummy in it's place with
> the number 1 in it, svn gives me an error that node i.0.3
> somethingorother in the database can't be found.

I'd expect similar results if my car told me "you're oil pressure is
low" and I reacted by dumping in Wesson(tm)!

> Similar things happen when I try to check out files as when I try to
> dump the repo with the new version of svnadmin. Am I hosed and must go
> back, or did the db format not actually change much and is there a
> sneaky way around this?

The db format changed *significantly*.

> Sorry for the trouble, but it takes forever to build everything on my
> machine. If there's not a groovy way around all this, does anyone have
> an educated guess if the latest apache, apr, apr-util, and neon will
> work (i.e. link against and produce a usable 0.14.0 svnadmin) with the
> older svn or if I really need to rebuild everything from the older
> sources (which thankfully I still have archived, so pinning down the
> system I had before won't be the issue)?

It's not likely, but keep in mind that just to dump a repository you
need not rebuild apache. Just build the 0.14.0 tarball for a
client-only build -- it has a "known good" apr and apr-util in it.

Here's a link for your convenience:

http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/697/subversion-r2667.tar.gz

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Received on Mon Sep 16 14:24:23 2002