Alfred:
One last question: are there any specific Subversion bugs that you need
fixed? What I'm getting at is that sitting on an old OS platform comes
with some costs. And, for the most part, unless you're being burned by a
specific Subversion bug, why upgrade?
Cheers:
Doug
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred_at_von-campe.com>
wrote:
> Hi Doug:
>
> The reason is pretty simple: we develop embedded software for a 32-bit
> platform and compile for both the target (using a cross compiler) and also
> natively so we can run unit and integration tests on our CentOS
> workstations. Our application is not (yet) 64-bit compatible. Now I know
> I can run a 32-bit compiler on a 64-bit host OS, but we also need to
> support a bunch of older projects on our 32-bit infrastructure and we
> haven’t taken the time to qualify them all on x86_64. I’m in the process
> of automating the CentOS 7 x86_64 installation but have hit a few snags
> along the way. Eventually (3-6 months) we will be moving to 64-bit CentOS
> 7 (or possibly 64-bit Ubuntu), but until then we will continue to use
> 32-bit CentOS 6. So if it’s not too much of a hassle, I would really
> appreciate if you can turn the 32-bit CentOS 6 builds back on.
>
> Thanks,
> Alfred
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2017, at 8:26, Doug Robinson <doug.robinson_at_wandisco.com>
> wrote:
>
> Alfred:
>
> You can blame me for the decision to prune out the 32-bit platform support
> from WANdisco.
>
> I can easily admit to being premature, but I'm finding less demand for
> 32-bit and really
> question why anyone would continue to run 32-bit at this time? If you
> could help me understand
> then perhaps I can reverse that decision...
>
> Thank you.
>
> Doug
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred_at_von-campe.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We are not quite ready to move to CentOS 7 yet, but hopefully will soon.
>> However, I don’t understand why the dependencies are different for i686
>> and x86_64 on the same CentOS 6 platform for Subversion 1.9.X. Up to
>> version 1.9.4-1, WANdisco provided binaries for both architectures.
>>
>> Alfred
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 7, 2017, at 20:46, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred_at_von-campe.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Does anyone on this list have a pointer to a repo that hosts the
>> latest 32-bit (i686) Subversion binaries for RHEL 6? I’ve been using the
>> WANdisco SVN Repo 1.9 (http://opensource.wandisco.co
>> m/centos/6/svn-1.9/RPMS), but it only has version 1.9.5-1 for 64-bit
>> (x86_64). The latest 32-bit binaries in that repo are for version 1.9.4-1,
>> which are almost a year old.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Alfred
>> >
>> > I tried, some time back, to publish SRPM building tools for
>> > subersion-1.9.x and 1.8.x over at https://github.com/nkadel/. I
>> > eventually had to throw in the towel as the component dependencies for
>> > compiling the latest Subversion exceeded my time to backport and
>> > provide separate, system compatible builds of various libraries. But
>> > you're welcome to poke them and take a shot at getting it to RHEL 6.
>> >
>> > I also admit that with RHEL 5 and CentOS 5 obsolete, CentOS 6 has also
>> > gotten quite long in the tooth. Can you update to CentOS 7?
>>
>>
>
>
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