Ubuntu Hoary - Upgrade to latest subversion release

[Gregory Piñero]

Thanks Shot!  That sounds great.  I can't wait to try it out hopefully
this weekend.

Just for learning's sake, let me try to restate the big picture to
make sure I'm understanding it:
So the big picture here is that we download Subversion from Breezy
which then needs mostly things from Hoary but a few things from
Breezy.  So we install all of those things.  Now whenever I use apt to
do any kind of updates everything from Hoary gets updated fine, and
the Breezy stuff gets ignored?
The reason this is a better method than making a standalone compile of
Subversion from source is that the hoary dependencies still get
updated and tracked normally, and apt still knows about Subversion in
some sense?

Thanks,

-Greg





On 7/28/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot at hot.pl> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Gregory Piñero:
> 
> > I'm really anxious to get subversion working. Would you
> > mind explaining your reccomended approach a bit more?
> 
> Sure. Sorry for the delay.
> 
> 1. It looks like `apt-get build-dep` doesn't honour
> the pinning, so I had to get the dependecies "by hand".
> 
> 2. I went to http://packages.ubuntu.com/subversion , clicked "breezy",
> scrolled down to "Source Package: subversion" and clicked that:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/source/subversion 
> 
> 3. I fired up aptitude and installed (from Hoary) all of the
> build-depends except for swig (Hoary has 1.3.22, subversion
> requires >= 1.3.24) plus build-essential and fakeroot.
> 
> 4. I had to build Breezy's swig first. Great. I clicked swig,
> scrolled down to "Source Package: swig1.3" and clicked that:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/source/swig1.3 
> 
> 5. Fired up aptitude and installed (from
> Hoary) all of swig1.3's bild-depends.
> 
> 6. Downloaded swig1.3_1.3.24.orig.tar.gz
> and swig1.3_1.3.24-1ubuntu3.diff.gz.
> 
> 7. `tar xzvf swig1.3_1.3.24.orig.tar.gz`
> 
> 8. `gunzip swig1.3_1.3.24-1ubuntu3.diff.gz`
> 
> 9. `patch -p0 < swig1.3_1.3.24-1ubuntu3.diff`
> 
> 10. `cd` to the created directory, `chmod +x debian/rules`
> 
> 11. `fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage`
> 
> 12. Time passes. It is getting dark.
> You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
> 
> 13. `cd ..` and `dpkg-deb -f swig_1.3.24-1ubuntu3_i386.deb`, to check
> whether any packages from Depends: are missing - if so, get them from
> aptitude.
> 
> 14. `sudo dpkg -i swig_1.3.24-1ubuntu3_i386.deb`
> 
> 15. Repeat points 6.-14. for subversion package(s).
> 
> Hope it all works for you as well; if not - let us know. :o)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Shot
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