Upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7

[Dheeraj <kv...@gmail.com>]

Hi

I use SVN as a configuration management tool in our premise. The
application configuration file for the software comes from SVN (we have
many instances of apps running and is managed by multiple users)
I have done the upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7.
I use kerberos authentication for the SVN setup. I have completed the sync
of repos to the new server.
I have an alias svn-server.come pointing to existing server  and want to
point to the new server.
What all precautions should I take, so that it wont hamper my production.
Once I do a migration will it have any impact on commit/svn up etc?

Best Regards,
Dheeraj

Re: Upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:07 AM Dheeraj <kv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I use SVN as a configuration management tool in our premise. The application configuration file for the software comes from SVN (we have many instances of apps running and is managed by multiple users)
> I have done the upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7.
> I use kerberos authentication for the SVN setup. I have completed the sync of repos to the new server.
> I have an alias svn-server.come pointing to existing server  and want to point to the new server.
> What all precautions should I take, so that it wont hamper my production.
> Once I do a migration will it have any impact on commit/svn up etc?

I think you're already in trouble. RHEL 6 was obsolete, RHEL 7 is
pretty long in the tooth, and RHEL 8 is available and working. RHEL 8
has Subversion 1.10 built in. Save yourself a lot of pain in a what
you say is a Kerberized environment by at least upgrading to
Subversion 1.10.

I used to publish Subversion backports for current releases to RHEL,
but the last one was https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.11.x-srpm
.

Re: Upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7

[William Muriithi <wi...@gmail.com>]

Hi Dheeraj,

I have done the upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7.
> I use kerberos authentication for the SVN setup.
>

RHEL 7 deprecates the kerberos module that was in use in RHEL 6.  Please
configure Apache to use mod_auth_gssapi instead.

Regards,
William

Re: Upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Dheeraj wrote on Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:58 +00:00:
> Hi
> 
> I use SVN as a configuration management tool in our premise. The 
> application configuration file for the software comes from SVN (we have 
> many instances of apps running and is managed by multiple users) 
> I have done the upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7.
> I use kerberos authentication for the SVN setup. I have completed the 
> sync of repos to the new server. 
> I have an alias svn-server.come pointing to existing server and want to 
> point to the new server. 
> What all precautions should I take, so that it wont hamper my 
> production.
> Once I do a migration will it have any impact on commit/svn up etc?

The client-side authentication cache is keyed on the server name (e.g.,
"https://svn.apache.org:443") and realm string.  If you keep those two
at the same values, clients will re-use the cached usernames and
passwords rather than prompt for them anew.

Re: Upgrade of SVN server from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7

[Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com>]

On 3/30/2020 6:58 AM, Dheeraj wrote:
> Once I do a migration will it have any impact on commit/svn up etc?

When I did this long ago, the one thing I forgot was the hooks. I have 
my scripts in /usr/local/bin/subversion and something broke. (I forget 
what.) So test those.