Thu, 03 Jul 2008
How not to upgrade Subversion
The unfortunate results of a distribution upgrade.
I have discovered how not to upgrade Subversion...
- Download and install Subversion from RPMs.
- Upgrade to Fedora Core 3. Automatically install Subversion package.
- Check utilities, everything seems to work, except...
- svn gives weird error messages.
- Raise bug on Subversion website.
- Get flamed by Subversion person.
- Raise bug on Subversion mailing list.
- Follow advice on Subversion mailing list.
- svn still gives weird error messages.
- Backup everything, delete Linux partition, reinstall FC3.
- svn now works. Try svn update.
- Get weird error messages from Subversion. Should have dumped repository before upgrade.
- Throw away old Subversion repository, create new repository.
Other than that it has been straightforward.
