Re: Best version for RHEL7/CentOS 7?

[Les Mikesell <le...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Les Mikesell <le...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Can someone comment on the best version of subversion to run on
>>> CentOS7?   The distribution supplies 1.7.14.    I was thinking of
>>> using the packaged 1.8.x from Wandisco, but I don't see a mod_dav_svn
>>> here:
>>> http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/svn-1.8/RPMS/x86_64/
>>> Does that mean there is a problem building it or am I missing something?
>>>
>
>> In general, the CentOS releases will be based on more regression
>> tested, stable source from RHEL. Even though I publish the tools to
>> build backport SRPM's and RPM's myself, at https://github.com/nkadel/,
>> I'd encourage stable, upstream tested tools where feasible. And I'd
>> jump to 1.7.20, or even to the noticeable performance and integration
>> of 1.8.13, only if I really need some of the new features.
>>
>> This is especially true of you have NFS or CIFS based home directories
>> and will access them with 1.8.x on one upgraded system and 1.7.x on
>> another system for the same working copy.
>

Looking into this a bit more, it appears that the mod_dav shipped in
RHEL/CentOS7 has a bug that breaks mod_dav_svn.  Has anyone worked
around this yet or am I the only person who wants to run a
newer-than-stock subversion with http access on RHEL/CentOS 7?

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@gmail.com