At last - I found a client - and it was java to the rescue. I tried SVNKIT:
http://svnkit.com/
It required no installation - just had to download and drop the files in any
path - no root / super user login required (as long as you have java)...
give the connection parameters to connect to svn; url, user name, password
and folder etc.. and it was checking out all files from the repositories. I
can now integrate it with my continuous integration tool of choice.
At this point, it is still basic, but I think it has a lot of potential.
this is one point where I think CVS still scores over SVN. The client
availability and accessibility. In CVS, I download a binary and then as
non-root I can give it commandline parameters to do what I want - just
checkout, no ssl etc and I am done. I do not have to depend on compile time
checking and preparation like in SVN. Unless I have got it all wrong.
Thanks so much for all the help.
Anoop
On Dec 21, 2007 8:44 PM, Anoop kumar V <anoopkumarv@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Wed Dec 26 18:54:57 2007