Re: Subversion upgrade from 1.3.0 to 1.5x

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:55, Peter Hoydonkx <peter.hoydonkx_at_nxp.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> Currently we have the following setup:
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> Linux server -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4
> (Nahant Update 4)
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> -> Subversion (server) 1.3.0
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> -> Apache 2.0
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> -> Trac 0.9.4
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> -> around 30 repositories (some
> with Trac enabled)
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> Windows clients -> running TortoiseSVN client
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> -> some PC's have
> subversion installed (for CLI usage)
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> Now we would want to upgrade to Subversion to 1.5.x.
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> Some questions:
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> - Which version could we best upgrade to? 1.5.2?

Unless you have a reason to run an older version, yes.

> - What are the steps to upgrade a subversion server installation? (I could
> find installation steps but no upgrade steps).

Just install the new version over the old (or uninstall the old, then
install the new).

> - What are the steps to upgrade the repositories? A few projects want to
> benefit from the new 1.5.x features while for some it is not important so

http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html#repos-upgrades
. In your case, a dump/load cycle wouldn't be a bad idea instead of
the "shortcut" upgrade at that link; the dump/load cycle will let you
take advantage of the new diff algorithm introduced in 1.4 (possibly
saving a lot of disk space on the repository).

> it is not a requirement to migrate all repositories at once.

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Received on 2008-09-22 14:37:09 CEST