Upgrading Bubba to use latest Subversion SVN package

[pdjclark]

I am using my Bubba as a mirror server for our company Subversion SVN Repository. The latest version that I can get via apt-get install subversion is v1.4.2 but the Debian website shows that v1.5.1 is available as stable under Lenny. (see http://packages.debian.org/search?keywo ... on&exact=1)

Is it possible for me to get this later version now, or do I have to upgrade my whole Bubba install to Lenny, or what??

Any advice gratefully received.

Paul

[jonj1]

Thankfully Subversion 1.5.1 is in the etch-backports repository, and it works fine with bubba2. To install, add this line

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deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

to

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/etc/apt/sources.list

and these lines

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Package: subversion
Pin:  release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 1001

to

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/etc/apt/preferences

then

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apt-get install subversion

should do the trick.

Jon

[pdjclark]

Hi Jon,
I just returned from 2 weeks vacation (not ignoring you!) and will try your suggestion,

many thanks

Paul

[afriendcalledben]

Hi Jon,

Did you mean to say that both:

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deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

and:

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Package: subversion
Pin:  release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 1001

should be posted to:

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/etc/apt/sources.list

Doesn't seem to fit the format of /etc/apt/sources.list.

Thanks for any advice you can give. Trying to get SVN going on the old bubba for my personal work.

Cheers.

[carl]

Hi Jon,

Did you mean to say that both:

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deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

and:

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Package: subversion
Pin:  release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 1001

should be posted to:

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/etc/apt/sources.list

Doesn't seem to fit the format of /etc/apt/sources.list.

Thanks for any advice you can give. Trying to get SVN going on the old bubba for my personal work.

Cheers.

The pinning should be done in /etc/apt/preferences

/Carl

[jonj1]

The pinning should be done in /etc/apt/preferences

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll update the earlier post.

Jon