Ubuntu Hoary - Upgrade to latest subversion release

[Gregory Piñero]

Shot,

I wanted to make sure you got my last message.  I'm really anxious to
get subversion working.  Would you mind explaining your reccomended
approach a bit more?

Thanks,

Greg


On 7/26/05, Gregory Piñero <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Below sounds promising except that I don't really understand it ...
> 
> Would you mind listing out the steps a little more and telling me what
> they're doing?
> 
> I'm still pretty new to all the Linux stuff.
> 
> -Greg
> 
> > 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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