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

[Jim Fulton]

I'm going to go ahead with this update in hopes of resolving some
windows client problems that may be confounding our efforts to
run windows tests with buildbot.

Jim

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?
> 
> jens
> 


-- 
Jim Fulton           mailto:jim at zope.com       Python Powered!
CTO                  (540) 361-1714            http://www.python.org
Zope Corporation     http://www.zope.com       http://www.zope.org