1.4.3 RPMs for RH EL 3?

[Janine Sisk <ja...@furfly.net>]

I have been keeping an eye on the site that has provided RPMs for  
RedHat Enterprise Linux version 3 in the past but it doesn't look  
like he's posting them for 1.4.3.  Is there some other source for  
these beyond the one that's linked from http://subversion.tigris.org/ 
project_packages.html, or are we now on our own?  I know that RHEL 3  
is old now;  maybe it's time to start compiling from source instead.

thanks,

janine

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Re: 1.4.3 RPMs for RH EL 3?

[Toby Johnson <to...@etjohnson.us>]

Janine Sisk wrote:
> I have been keeping an eye on the site that has provided RPMs for 
> RedHat Enterprise Linux version 3 in the past but it doesn't look like 
> he's posting them for 1.4.3.  Is there some other source for these 
> beyond the one that's linked from 
> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html, or are we now on 
> our own?  I know that RHEL 3 is old now;  maybe it's time to start 
> compiling from source instead.

Compiling your own RPM is actually rather easy, especially if you 
already have 1.4.2 installed (which ensures all your dependencies are up 
to date). Simply download the source tarball (or better yet, check out 
<http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.4.3> so you can easily just 
switch to the latest tag each time you need to build it). Then cd to 
packages/rpm/rhel-3 and type "make". You might need to install some 
other RPMs in order to do the build.

Alternatively, download the source RPM from here:
<http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/subversion/subversion-1.4.3-0.1.rf.src.rpm>

Then build the binary RPMs using "rpmbuild --rebuild <srpm-file>".

Either way, I would highly recommend compiling your own binary RPMs, 
then installing from those, instead of compiling and installing directly 
from a source tarball. (That applies not just to Subversion;  I always 
first try to find an SRPM in the Fedora "raw hide" repo, Dag Wieers' 
site, or rpmfind.net before resorting from compiling directly from a 
tarball... it makes future upgrades and rollbacks/uninstalls much easier!)

toby

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