Ubuntu Hoary - Upgrade to latest subversion release

[Shot - Piotr Szotkowski]

Hello.

Gregory Piñero:

> I wonder if I could grab the latest Subversion package from Breezy
> without changing my sources.list?  That's the only program I need the
> latest from.  Can you tell apt to install a package you bring in from
> somewhere else?

You could do this with `dpkg -i package.deb`, but you'd have to track
the dependencies by hand. Unfortunately, Breezy's packages are compiled
for Breezy's libc6:

shot at dawid:~$ apt-cache policy subversion
subversion:
  Installed: 1.1.1-2ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1.1.1-2ubuntu3
  Version table:
     1.2.0-1ubuntu1 0
          1 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
 *** 1.1.1-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
shot at dawid:~$ apt-cache showpkg subversion
[...]
Dependencies:
1.2.0-1ubuntu1 - libapr0 (2 2.0.54) libc6 (2 2.3.4-1) [...]
1.1.1-2ubuntu3 - libapr0 (2 2.0.52) libc6 (2 2.3.2.ds1-4) [...]

This means you'd have to upgrade libc6, and as it is the GNU C Library,
you could as well go full-Breezy, which you definitely don't want to do.

> Alternatively, maybe I could compile Subversion from source or however
> that works?  I really do want the stability of Hoary so I'd prefer not
> to get anything else from Breezy.

Yup. I learned this not a week ago when I wanted to have Breezy's Ruby
under Hoary, and the way I did is is described in the comments here:
http://weblog.zerokspot.com/posts/426/#comments

If I were to do this again, I'd wouldn't add the Breezy sources
(`apt-get source subversion` ignores the pinning and tries to
install Breezy's versions of build-depends, so it's useless).

What I'd most probably do would be to find subversion's source
package[1], apt-get the build-depends mentioned there plus the
build-essential and fakeroot packages (all from Hoary), get the
subversion_1.2.0.orig.tar.gz and subversion_1.2.0-1ubuntu1.diff.gz
files, untar the original, unzip the diff, patch the orig with the
diff and `fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage`. After a longish wait I'd be
presented with all of the .debs built from that source, so I'd check
their dependencies (with `dpkg-deb -f package.deb`) and install them
by hand (satisfying the dependencies as I go along).

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/source/subversion

Cheers,
-- Shot
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