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SVN upgrade to 1.6.6

// December 17th, 2009 // guides, work

After being pointed out by ejat about the OSCC SVN server was being slow (or something, along the line of should upgrade to 1.5 for faster process) so I went out and check out SVN was indeed of version 1.4.2, the latest is 1.6.6.

On CentOS machine:

Stop any service that’s running httpd, svnserve, etc.

Add RPMForge repository as that’s where the latest SVN is

# i386
$ wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
$ rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm

This will create /etc/yum.repo.d/rpmforge.repo file. Edit this file, change enable=0 as RPMForge contains bleeding edge, often unstable packages. You don’t want to do $ yum update accidentally and put your entire system at risk if you don’t know what you’re doing.

You may not need this but just in case, backup your SVN repo.

$ svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > dumpfile.txt

If anything goes wrong, even if you install a new copy of SVN, you can recover you data with this:

$ svnadmin create /path/to/newrepository
$ svnadmin load /path/to/newrepository < dumpfile.txt

Now check for SVN update

$ yum --enablerepo=rpmforge check-update subversion

It should display the latest version like this

subversion.x86_64    1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf  rpmforge

Then upgrade

$ yum --enablerepo=rpmforge update subversion

This will update SVN from the RPMForge.

Restart the service httpd, svnserve, etc.