> From: Paul Hammant [mailto:paul_at_hammant.org]
> Sent: den 8 december 2019 11:26
> To: Bo Berglund
> Subject: Re: SVN version - confused about support
>
>
> First of all, get good at backups, and **practice** restores to another machine.
>
That is another really unrelated story...
I have asked around for how to actually do backups that many howto-pages on the
web recommend before attempting the procedure they describe.
Quite often this is regarding Raspberry Pi systems (which are the more common Linux
stuff I work with). Invariably the response is to take an image of the SD-card running
The Raspbian system on Rpi...
Obviously that is not really the answer for a Ubuntu Server running with a 500 GB hard disk.
On Windows there are ways to backup the system even included on the operating system
but it seems you are on your own when dealing with Ubuntu and Linux in general...
Unless you mean just backing up the SVN repository files??
Those are a sum of 5.6 GB located on /var/lib/svn/
I could tar the whole tree and put that into a NAS on the network of course...
Or is there a better method using svn itself that could be used?
Notice that the Ubuntu server ia a backup SVN itself only used with svnsync from the main server.
> Separately get experience with nuget and chocolatey. Maybe pair with someone on these.
>
I did not know these existed even...
However, I cannot really change the software management on already installed programs
using other managers, right?
Meanwhile,
I found my notes for the Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS SVN mirror server installation (Jan 2017).
There I can see that svn was installed using these apt commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-mod-svn libapache2-svn libsvn-dev
sudo a2enmod dav
sudo a2enmod dav_svn
sudo service apache2 restart
Followig this there was a number of configuration file edits etc...
So given that I used apt-get to retrieve svn and got 1.9.7 I am a bit surprised that
I am not given any options to upgrade svn when I regularly do:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Why is that? I thought that all software installed via apt will be automatically
checked for updates and shown suggested candidates for upgrades when such exist.
If I do another "sudo apt install subversion" today will I then get an upgrade to
the 1.10.6 stable LTS version?
Probably not:
$ apt-cache policy subversion
subversion:
Installed: 1.9.7-4ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.9.7-4ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1.9.7-4ubuntu1 500
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
So Ubuntu is still on 1.9.7 in their repositories?
Received on 2019-12-08 16:26:52 CET