Ok - that is something I can try. I will try to build from source as
non-root and check.
I will keep you all posted - appreciate the help.
On Dec 21, 2007 5:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b@ryandesign.com>
wrote:
>
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 16:33, Anoop kumar V wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 2007 1:41 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
> >> On Dec 19, 2007 1:23 PM, Anoop kumar V wrote:
> >>> Are you saying I need to be root even to install svn client? (Not
> >>> server,
> >>> just a client)
> >>
> >> No, he's saying you need to be root to install Subversion & any
> >> libraries into a "system" prefix. If you want to put everything in
> >> your home directory, then you do *not* need to be root.
> >
> > That does not seem true with the binary available on collab.net.
> > I keep getting the message - you need to be root to run this. I am
> > using the binary: CSVNclnt-1.4.4.1-sparc-local available at: http://
> > downloads.open.collab.net/collabnet-subversion.html
> >
> > Maybe I am using the wrong binary - can you / someone point me to
> > the binary for Solaris 10 sparc, that I can run as a non-root user?
>
> I do not know if there is any pre-built *binary* that you can install
> as non-root. (It would be hard for the manufacturer of a binary to
> know which paths on your system are writable by you, and the paths
> are often hard-coded into the binary.) I'm fairly sure, however, that
> you can build from *source* as non-root and then use the resulting
> binary as non-root.
>
>
Received on Sat Dec 22 09:12:00 2007