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Re: Subversion on Debian

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson_at_flatline.org.uk>
Date: 2003-08-03 05:52:11 CEST

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On August 1, 2003 05:07 pm, Steele Price wrote:
> > I had forgotten that debian was maintaining source packages for subversion
> > and thought I might remind anyone who wants to build the most recent
> > sources on debian that they can use the debian sources instead of the raw
> > sources at collab.net. (unless of course you want to create your own set of
> > debian rules for some reason, they are only a day or 2 behind the most
> > current releases)
>
> I've been running my subversion server on an "unstable" Debian system. It's
> been through a few upgrades and no problems have cropped up but I've only
> been running it for about a month. I'm accessing it over the network (apache
> server). Interestingly the current state is that the subversion programs are
> at version 0.26 but the apache dav module is still at version 0.25 ... that
> isn't causing any problems though (at least that I've found).

The libapache-dav-svn package is obsolete and has been replaced by
libapache-svn. If you use a good package manager it'll tell you this.
:-)

> For those that want to stick with the stable Debian distribution someone out
> there is maintaining the necessary packages for subversion on woody at:
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/subversion-woody ./
>
> Add that to your /etc/apt/source.list and "apt-get install subversion". I'm
> only using these subversion programs on the client side but they're working
> great for me. Everything you need should be in there to run a subversion
> server on woody as well, though I haven't tried it.

I started that backport because I needed to run a subversion server on
woody, so it should work.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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