On Tuesday 01 August 2006 21:32, Joe Sparks wrote:
> I have been tasked with converting our data from CVS to SVN. Let me
> first stress that I am NOT an expert. We have a +5GB CVS repository
> that I need to convert. I first tried the pre-installed copy of
> Subversion that came with SUSE 10.1 (version 1.3.0). I was having a
> problem converting the data using cvs2svn.
What problem? Also, but I'm not sure, it could be possible that cvs2svn is its
own, separate project - in that case you should rather ask on their
mailinglist.
> After reading the mail
> archive, I got the impression it was highly recommended to have the
> newest version installed and running before asking for help.
Well, asking about problems with an obsolete version doesn't make sense, but
1.3.0 is pretty recent so I'd stick with that version, in particular since it
comes packaged for your OS. You avoid all the problems building Subversion,
for example...
> -----------------------------------
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/libexpat.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning:
> `/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../..//libexpat.la' seems to be
> moved
> /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> warning: libexpat.so.1, needed by /usr/local/apr/lib/libaprutil-1.so,
> may conflict with libexpat.so.0
> -----------------------------------
FYI, those .la files are textfiles that describe where a library expects to be
installed, what other libs it depends on etc. The warning means that the
library was moved to a different place than the one it expected to be,
possibly causing it to not function or not function properly.
Lastly, you can install Subversion from source without any root privileges at
all, the only thing you need is to pass e.g. '--prefix ~/svn-install' to
configure and adapt a few things like PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This helps
keeping this install from affecting other stuff on the system. In fact that
is a feature of autotools, so every program that comes with a configure
script should be installable like that.
Uli
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Received on Wed Aug 2 12:44:53 2006