[Zope-dev] Re: svn.zope.org borked

[Jim Fulton]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On 19 Dec 2005, at 22:08, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Sounds good.  I'll announce that the repo will be down for maintenance
>> on the 25th,
> 
> 
> 
> Just FYI, during a dry run this morning I hit an obvious snag: The  
> subversion packages on svn.zope.org are so ancient that they cannot  
> create FSFS backends. What I was able to test so far is dumping: It  
> takes just 10 minutes and creates a file 1.1GB in size, so that's good.
> 
> I had a look at the packages on the box and luckily the (rather  
> obscure) source they are from does supply newer ones:
> 
> http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/
> 
>  From eyeballing the RPM requirements and then doing a dry-run the  
> packages that will need updating are...
> 
> - swig (1.3.19-1.1 to 1.3.19-3)
> - subversion (1.0.6-1 to 1.2.3-1)
> - subversion-tools (1.0.6-1 to 1.2.3-1)
> - subversion-python (1.0.6-1 to 1.2.3-1)
> 
> This additional packages needs to be installed for svn-tools:
> 
> - subversion-perl (1.2.3-1)
> 
> Since I cannot do any test right now for loading the dumpfile into a  
> FSFS-based repository I suggest doing this package upgrade  beforehand. 
> It only takes a few minutes. I cannot make any guarantees  that nothing 
> will break, however. The only major upgrade to a running  SVN setup that 
> I have done was 1.1 to 1.2.1 and that was perfectly fine.
> 
> How should I proceed?

Go for it. But please, just to be safe, let's wait until the next
round of betas is out.  Hopefully, this will happen in the next couple
of days.

Jim

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