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How do I Upgrade to Subversion 1.5 On CentOS 5?

Asked 2008-09-18T20:32:37.640
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My development server (CentOS 5) is running Subversion 1.4.2, and I wish to upgrade it to 1.5. I have read in various blogs and documents scattered around the web that this may be done by using RPMForge. I have followed the instructions found on CentOS Wiki, including installing yum-priorities and setting my priorities as indicated (1 and 2 for core repo sources, and 20 for RPMForge).

However, when I attempt to run:

$ yum info subversion

the version number given to me is still 1.4.2, with a status of Installed. My other option at this point is compiling from source, but I would like to find a package-managed solution for ease of future upgrades.

Any thoughts?

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I'm not overly concerned about the other outdated packages at the moment, but as you can see there is no Subversion update available.

Nor any packages from rpmforge. It's your priority settings. Try disabling yum-priorities (change enabled=1 to enabled=0 in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf) - then it should work.

So I guess the next question is why the priority is screwing it up.... I'm not sure on this, though.

Edit: See 8jean's answer for more about priorities.

answered 2008-09-18T21:20:47.180
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its up to v 1.4.6 in Dag's repository.

You can try the one from Fedora's repo or have a bit of patience for the main repositories to upgrade it.

Making it from source is easy, read the INSTALL file when you download the source package, bear in mind CentOS may have moved where the files get installed. (Use "rpm -ql subversion" to see where the old files were installed to).

When v1.5.0 gets released to the repository, you can delete your built version and install using yum as before.

answered 2008-09-18T20:41:05.763

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