Hi Micah
noe thought that crosses my mind,
would using a chroot install be one solution.
regards
Olly
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Micah Cowan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alongside the default system install of an older Subversion (1.3.1), I
> have installed 1.4.4 into /opt/subversion. My trouble is that I did not
> opt to install all of the same libraries (ra_dav, for instance).
>
> When I run subversion, it checks for libraries, such as libsvn_ra_dav.
> As it should, it first checks /opt/subversion. However, after that
> point, it checks other system library directories. It manages to find
> the old one in /usr/lib. However, this one, of course, corresponds to
> 1.3.1, so svn dies with "Mismatched RA version for 'dav': found 1.4.4,
> expected 1.3.1" (is that message even correct? It seems to me it should
> be the reverse, but maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning. Yes, I made
> sure I was running the right svn binary; specified the full path).
>
> It seems to me that svn should handle such situations gracefully, with a
> warning rather than an error, and refuse to actually use libraries whose
> versions don't match expectations, but continue on otherwise. Ideally,
> the warning should be suppressible.
>
> The workaround I'm currently employing is to simply move the old ones
> out of the way. This isn't a great general solution, though: what if I
> had wanted to use the two different versions for different
> purposes--say, one for testing and another for production use. The user
> shouldn't be forced to ensure that all libraries present in the older
> version are also present in the new. And what about the case where a
> library name has been deprecated in the new version?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Micah J. Cowan
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> http://micah.cowan.name/
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