Subversion on Solaris (was Re: A strong WTF on compiling out plaintext password support by default?!)

[Daniel Sahlberg <da...@gmail.com>]

Den mån 23 aug. 2021 kl 12:15 skrev Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>:

> Anyway, concerning package maintainers, for Solaris, I'm getting even
> more depressed ...
> * We were using Collab.net's distro, but apparently their Solaris
> build is no longer maintained:
> https://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion
> * Wandisco then? Nope:
> https://www.wandisco.com/source-code-management/subversion#solaris ...
> only Windows, Linux and MacOS.
> * Fortunately, there is still a relatively recent build on OpenCSW:
> https://www.opencsw.org/packages/subversion/


I have been working with Dagobert Michelsen of OpenCSW to build Subversion
1.14.1 (mailing list thread starting at
http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/users/2021-August/010493.html).

Due to my relative inexperience with Solaris I have not been able to
compile Subversion myself so I have had some problems to execute the
complete test suite but I have run the majority of tests and it all seems
fine. The failing tests are because some missing tooling and not because of
errors in the Subversion build.


> (-> Wandisco's link should be removed from
> http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#solaris -- making that
> section empty ... or should we add a link to opencsw then?)
> (-> this abandoning of packagers / maintainers makes me feel our
> ecosystem is breaking down)
>

This was implemented in the main site as r1892681

So I guess my best shot is contacting the maintainer of the openCSW
> package, and asking him to add the --enable-plaintext-password-storage
> configure flag and make a new build then.
>

I have raised this question, see mailing list thread above.

Kind regards,
Daniel

Re: Subversion on Solaris (was Re: A strong WTF on compiling out plaintext password support by default?!)

[Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 7:29 AM Daniel Sahlberg
<da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Den mån 23 aug. 2021 kl 12:15 skrev Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Anyway, concerning package maintainers, for Solaris, I'm getting even
>> more depressed ...
>> * We were using Collab.net's distro, but apparently their Solaris
>> build is no longer maintained:
>> https://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion
>> * Wandisco then? Nope:
>> https://www.wandisco.com/source-code-management/subversion#solaris ...
>> only Windows, Linux and MacOS.
>> * Fortunately, there is still a relatively recent build on OpenCSW:
>> https://www.opencsw.org/packages/subversion/
>
>
> I have been working with Dagobert Michelsen of OpenCSW to build Subversion 1.14.1 (mailing list thread starting at http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/users/2021-August/010493.html).
>
> Due to my relative inexperience with Solaris I have not been able to compile Subversion myself so I have had some problems to execute the complete test suite but I have run the majority of tests and it all seems fine. The failing tests are because some missing tooling and not because of errors in the Subversion build.
>
>>
>> (-> Wandisco's link should be removed from
>> http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#solaris -- making that
>> section empty ... or should we add a link to opencsw then?)
>> (-> this abandoning of packagers / maintainers makes me feel our
>> ecosystem is breaking down)
>
>
> This was implemented in the main site as r1892681
>
>> So I guess my best shot is contacting the maintainer of the openCSW
>> package, and asking him to add the --enable-plaintext-password-storage
>> configure flag and make a new build then.
>
>
> I have raised this question, see mailing list thread above.
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel

Thanks Daniel. You're a star! :-)

-- 
Johan