Re: Support for BDB in RPM's

Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> We are using RHEL 3 with Berkeley DB repositories.
>
> Support for BDB has just been removed from 1.2.x's RHEL 3 RPMs. What do
> I do now? I (like surely many others) were depending on the RPM
> packages. This mean that I can't upgrade, or that I need to build
> Subversion (and face all the Berkeley DB problems) myself. This was done
> to ease maintaining the RPMs. What it's really been done is to push the
> complexity to us, the users.
>
> Again: What should I do now?

Convert to fsfs? I converted to fsfs some time ago without difficulty.
  To do it create new repository:

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /path/to/new/one

Then dump and load using a pipe:

svnadmin dump /path/to/old/one | svnadmin load /path/to/new/one

Then upgrade the rpms.

-- 
Martin Tomes
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