[WBEL-users] Subversion installation woes

whiteboxlinux.org@dusanv.net whiteboxlinux.org@dusanv.net
Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:22:06 -0500


Matt Dainty writes: 

> On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 02:36, whiteboxlinux.org@dusanv.net wrote:
>> Hi,  
>> 
>> I am trying to install subersion on WB3. I have seen the binary rpms on the 
>> subversion site (well they are for RH EL 3) and am not sure whether they'll 
>> stomp over something on my box (db42 rpm and all):  
>> 
>> <http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/whitebox-el-3/bin/>  
>> 
>> The other option is FC3 but it seems that's would be harder since I'll have 
>> to update half of the system. What did you people do?
> 
> I installed the ones found here: 
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/jorton/Taroon-svn/ 
> 
> ...which are designed to work *with* the existing packages rather than
> replace them. 
> 
> Yes, those other ones will replace certain RHEL/WBEL packages, which
> unless your box is *solely* for Subversion, you'll probably find RPM
> dependency clashes with other packages. 
> 
> Plus these are available as a Yum repository. 
> 
> Matt 
> 

Works. Thanks! 

Dusan