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Re: SVN client vs CVS client

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2007-12-21 23:41:16 CET

On Dec 21, 2007, at 16:33, Anoop kumar V wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 1:41 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2007 1:23 PM, Anoop kumar V wrote:
>>> Are you saying I need to be root even to install svn client? (Not
>>> server,
>>> just a client)
>>
>> No, he's saying you need to be root to install Subversion & any
>> libraries into a "system" prefix. If you want to put everything in
>> your home directory, then you do *not* need to be root.
>
> That does not seem true with the binary available on collab.net.
> I keep getting the message - you need to be root to run this. I am
> using the binary: CSVNclnt-1.4.4.1-sparc-local available at: http://
> downloads.open.collab.net/collabnet-subversion.html
>
> Maybe I am using the wrong binary - can you / someone point me to
> the binary for Solaris 10 sparc, that I can run as a non-root user?

I do not know if there is any pre-built *binary* that you can install
as non-root. (It would be hard for the manufacturer of a binary to
know which paths on your system are writable by you, and the paths
are often hard-coded into the binary.) I'm fairly sure, however, that
you can build from *source* as non-root and then use the resulting
binary as non-root.

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