Are you saying I need to be root even to install svn client? (Not server,
just a client)
If the above is true, then I would say cvs is better at least in this
feature - I just download one executable, add it to my path, set some env
variables (CVS_PATH etc..) and I can checkout the code and do all stuff - of
course I need to authenticate, which isnt too bad.
I hope I am wrong!.
I am sure svn offers something better than that - and not require me to
install as root etc.. Are there any instructions to install SVN client on
Solaris 10 sparc?
Thanks,
Anoop
On Dec 18, 2007 10:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b@ryandesign.com>
wrote:
>
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 21:35, Anoop kumar V wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if this is true. But my observation is this:
> >
> > CVS commandline clients seem more user friendly than SVN
> > commandline clients.
> >
> > In CVS, there is just one file that can be placed in the path and
> > executed. There is nothing to install and you do not need
> > superuser / root permission to run the client.
> >
> > In SVN, it seems, you need to go through installation - the
> > binaries are rarely available - it took a long time to find one for
> > Solaris. And the instructions said that I need to be root to
> > install and use the client.
> >
> > I am not complaining here - I am only trying to understand if the
> > above is true. And how does one go about using an svn client (not a
> > server) from solaris commandline. I cannot install anything, just
> > want to connect & checkout code kept on an SVN server.
> >
> > Is this easily possible?
>
> Binaries are available for many platforms. You will probably need to
> be root to install these, though.
>
> You definitely do not need to be root to use Subversion. You will
> probably need to be root to install Subversion to a system prefix.
> You can instead configure Subversion in another prefix to which your
> user has write access and build there instead. And you don't need
> root for that. Subversion has many library dependencies. If those
> libraries are not already on your system, you would need to build and
> install those, perhaps also in a different location than normally.
>
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 19 19:23:28 2007