I finally got Subversion compiling and installed on RH9 and will be
posting new RPMS for 7.X, 8.0, 9.0 in the morning. I've had a
particularly busy week, sorry for not getting them posted sooner.
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Steve Williams wrote:
> How are the RH9 RPMs for 0.25.0 going? I'm a complete newbie when it comes
> to RH9 and RPMs so I'm not at all confident in getting Subversion installed
> any other way.
>
> On a side note, when trying to install the 0.24.2 RPMs, I found that the
> openssl package had to be updated as well on a vanilla RH9 installation.
> Could the appropriate openssl RPM be added to the summersoft.fay.ar.us
> distribution site? It would make it a whole load easier for newbies such as
> myself.
>
> Is there any way we can get the RH9 port of apt-get working with the
> Subversion packages at summersoft.fay.ar.us? The whole package dependency
> ordeal when manually installing RPMs is really frustrating for someone just
> starting out (I never did get all the 0.24.2 RPMs successfully installed).
> apt-get seems to be a much nicer solution as it handles the dependencies for
> you. I found rpmfind as well, but that seems to be only a halfway solution
> to the functionality that apt-get provides. I can hear people saying, "If
> you want apt-get, why don't you install Debian?" I have the Debian Woody
> install CDs, but I'm trying to repress the horrors of the terribly
> unfriendly Debian Woody installer. The oh-so friendly RH9 installer worked
> flawlessly, so RH9 it is.
>
> I'm keen to get a Subversion repository going on a RH9 machine as I do not
> want to put up for another WinXP license. If I cannot get a repos going on
> RH9, then I will have no choice but to use WinXP (which I am far more
> familiar with).
>
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