On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:46:47PM +0100, emiliano.mon...@eu.steria.be wrote: > Hallo, > > I'm new comer in Subversion users mailing list and I want post my first > question: > I have Subversion 1.4.5 release up and running over a Linux CentOS > machine. Due to I would like to upgrade Subversion to 1.6.9 release, I > would like to know if it is possible to install two Subversion release on > the same machine without performing upgrade of the old one.
It's possible. Just make sure to install both into a different prefix. E.g. if you build from source, install both into separate prefixes: For 1.4.5: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/svn-1.4.5 For 1.6.9: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/svn-1.6.9 E.g. on my system I currently have two svn trunk builds, and one 1.5.x build (the branch from which the next 1.5 release will be made, if ever) and one svn-1.6.x build (the branch from which the next 1.6 release will be made) installed in my home directory: $ ls ~/svn/prefix apr/ httpd/ serf/ svn-1.5.x/ svn-trunk/ bdb/ neon/ sqlite/ svn-1.6.x/ svn-trunk2/ $ which svn /home/stsp/svn/prefix/svn-trunk/bin/svn If you use binary packages, the content of binary packages will probably overlap, e.g. both trying to install /usr/bin/svn. In this case you cannot install both at the same time (unless there is a way to install an RPM into a different directory than the root directory '/' -- I don't know if that's possible). Stefan
