On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 05:53:11PM -0500, Eric wrote: > Here is my problem. I am running a Subversion server using version > 1.4.2, which is the version that is installed by default with CentOS > 5.x. For reasons that have nothing to do with performance or > reliability... it currently hosts almost 14,000 files and I've had > exactly zero problems with it in the year and a half I've been > running it on this project..., I am shortly going to be, shall we > say, strongly encouraged to upgrade to a 1.6.x release like the > latest stable. I need to do this in a way that's as simple and > instantaneous as possible to revert back to 1.4.2 if I run into an > issue. > > I am (as far as I know) using only svnserve and svnadmin, not the > local svn client or the web interface or anything else. So I'm > wondering if I can just drop the svnserve out of 1.6.xx in place of > the one in 1.4.2 and run with that, and put the one from 1.4.2 back > if I have any problems.
I'd recommend getting subversion 1.6 RPMs from RPMforge. You'll have an easy way to revert -- just install the 1.4 RPMs if you really have to (you most likely won't have a reason to go back).
