Hi Bruce,
I very much appreciate your kind offer, but it appears that, by
following Kurt Fogel's suggestion, I've been able to build svn from the
sources. I had some difficulties communicating with the server at first,
but it turned out that the hosting service I am using had port 3690
(or 09, whatever svnserve listens on) blocked. I asked them to open it
for me, at least on my static IP address, and things seem to be OK now.
I may not stay with them much longer, as checkouts are taking a L-O-O-N-G
time. Probably their servers are overloaded, or their pipe to the
internet is small & congested. However, I appreciate the offer. If
you don't mind, I think I'll keep your email address around in case I
ever run into any FreeBSD related problems. Take care, and have a nice
weekend.
Dennis
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> [Resent...my original seems to have disappeared...]
>
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 10:11, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > Dennis Newbold <dennisn@pe.net> writes:
> > > Part of my problem is that the web hosting outfit I signed up with
> > > advertised having both Linux and FreeBSD servers available. I requested a
> > > Linux server, since that's what I'm most comfortable with. They gave me a
> > > FreeBSD server. When I objected (and after they had taken my money) they
> > > said they had no more Linux servers available, but that FreeBSD was
> > > "functionally equivalent". Which, in large part, may be true, but it
> > > means that I cannot install from a subversion rpm file, since rpm's don't
> > > work on FreeBSD.
> >
> > Yick. Sorry you're doing business with them :-(.
>
> Ditto. I'm a big FreeBSD fan but I'm also a big believer in using
> whatever tools you're most comfortable with, and in providers giving you
> what you ask for.
>
> Dennis, I recommend installing subversion from the FreeBSD ports
> collection (roughly analogous to a source RPM). If you want a
> pre-compiled package (roughly analogous to a binary RPM), I believe we
> have 1.0.4 on the project FTP servers. Both of these will be much
> easier than trying to check out the source and building it.
>
> For a brief time I used to maintain the ports collection Makefiles for
> subversion. It's how I always install subversion.
>
> If you can tell me exactly what version of FreeBSD you have on the
> server ('uname -a' output) and what kind of access you have (i.e. do you
> have superuser access?) I can try to help you out. Off-list is fine if
> you prefer.
>
> Bruce.
> (FreeBSD committer)
>
>
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