Re: older versions of the subversion server

That is a very good question.

Our subversion server has not been updated in a while and it is still on
version 1.4.2. I was looking into updating it to take advantage of the
new merge tracking features (among others).

Since we are using such an old version, I wanted to replicate our
production environment on a test server (thus requiring version 1.4.2)
and performing the upgrade there first.

Do you think I am being overly cautious? What are the chances for a
problem to occur in the upgrade process?

Thank you,
Alin

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2010b_at_ryandesign.com>
To: Tomoiaga, Alin <alin.tomoiaga_at_ttu.edu>
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Subject: Re: older versions of the subversion server
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:13:32 -0500

On Jun 16, 2010, at 11:11, Alin wrote:

> I am trying to install an older version of subversion (1.4.2) on two Linux systems Ubuntu and Red Hat ( 2.6.31-20-generic Ubuntu and 2.6.18-164.el5 ) and I am having a hard time locating the older version packages for subversion.
> I tried both the Ubuntu and Red Hat repositories and the subversion website.
> Can you please tell me if these packages are still available for download?

Certainly the source is still available from the Subversion project's web site. Not sure where you'd get older precompiled packages for various OSes.

Note that Subversion 1.4.x and earlier are unsupported by now, and when 1.7.0 comes out, support for 1.5.x will be dropped. Why do you need to use such an old version?
Received on 2010-06-17 22:09:57 CEST