> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > > On 11/15/2010 9:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > >>> On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from source. > >>> Here is my build script: > > Has someone had specific problems with the rpmforge rpms? I've been using > them on centos5 without any trouble,
Neither rpmforge, nor epel has subversion >= 1.5 for rhel4. I used collabnet, when 1.5.0 first came out and building from source was extremely difficult ... but the collabnet rpm's had lots of "surprises" like the silent creation of csvn user which conflicts with our company's UID numbering scheme. Config files & log files kept in unusual locations. And there was some kind of problem with svnsync that I don't remember now, and stuff like that. So ... in later versions of 1.5.x, when it became easy to build from source, I found that building from source was the clear best solution for the locations where I support it. Reliable (behaves the same on all machines). No surprises. And the trend continues with 1.6. Still easy to build, but no rpm's available that I trust more than what I build from source.
