On Jan 2, 2008 6:50 AM, Marc Haisenko <haisenko_at_comdasys.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007, 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?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anoop
>
> Well, this thread got me worried a bit because I think there's a lack of
> basic
> OS knowledge.
>
> Both CVS and SVN can be installed as root and as non-root. Whether you
> need
> root privileges is not dependent on the program but where you install it.
> Almost all binary packages are meant to be installed for system-wide usage
> and this means they want to install in /usr, which needs you to be root to
> write there. This is true for both CVS and SVN ! Installing /usr/bin/cvs
> needs root access as well.
>
> So if you compile from source and don't want to be root (e.g. you just
> want to
> try it out) you'd do something like:
> ./configure --prefix=/home/me/svn
> make
> make install
>
> You'd end up with SubVersion in /home/me/svn/bin/svn.
>
> Now, as soon as you got it installed (no matter where) you won't need root
> privileges for either one. You do not need to be root to run SubVersion or
> CVS.
>
> Hope that clarifies things a bit.
> Bye,
> Marc
>
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Thanks Marc. I think I do have more than basic OS knowledge and would beg to
differ that this issue is not much related to OS.
What I was trying to highlight is how a CVS executable can just be dropped
in the PATH. Look at this link:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cvs.help/browse_thread/thread/b19e87048d2afe98/eb8947608caff299?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#eb8947608caff299
or click here<http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cvs.help/browse_thread/thread/b19e87048d2afe98/eb8947608caff299?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#eb8947608caff299>
It is the same OS - one binary file achieves everything. Now in SVN the
installation path seems hardwired into the program such that I cannot just
drop and expect a binary to run as a client. All it needs to do is just
connect to SVN with the user name and password and check out code.
Received on 2008-01-04 04:57:23 CET