Install Subversion 1.4 in Dapper with SSL and Berkeley DB Support

[gadgetgirl]

Just as an aside, the FSFS system is much better than the Berkely DB. Unless they've done an about-face since 1.2, there are a lot of reasons to stick with FSFS.

They did actually do an about-face in 1.4 with regard to BDB.

A common problem with previous versions of Subversion is that crashed server processes could leave BerkeleyDB-based repositories in an unusable "wedged" state, requiring administrators to manually intervene and bring back online. (Note: this is not due to bugs in BerkeleyDB, but due to the unorthodox way in which Subversion uses it!)

Subversion 1.4 can now be compiled against BerkeleyDB 4.4, which has a new "auto-recovery" feature. If a Subversion server process crashes and leaves the repository in an inconsistent state, the next process which attempts to access the repository will notice the problem, grab exclusive control of the repository, and automatically recover it. In theory (and in our testing), this new feature makes BerkeleyDB-based repositories just as wedge-proof as FSFS repositories.

[desheikh]

for edgy try installing the packages at this location

http://higepon.blogspot.com/2006/12/...untu-edgy.html

[crisisfrog]

Or...

http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/subversion

Edited...

Nevermind, that does not seem to work as well. Plus, it's a test release.

[fluxin]

Look here
http://tux.oclug.on.ca/pipermail/ocl...ay/038916.html

I also get errors when it tries to copy the apr stuff when doing the sudo checkinstall. I'm using Edgy too. Here are the actual messages:

mkdir /usr/local/apr/include/apr-0
cp -p /home/ndrake/src/subversion-1.4.2/apr/include/*.h /usr/local/apr/include/apr-0;
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_allocator.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_allocator.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_atomic.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_atomic.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_compat.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_compat.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_dso.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_dso.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_env.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_env.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_errno.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_errno.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_file_info.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_file_info.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_file_io.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_file_io.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_fnmatch.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_fnmatch.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_general.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_general.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_getopt.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_getopt.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_global_mutex.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_global_mutex.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_hash.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_hash.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_inherit.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_inherit.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_lib.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_lib.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_mmap.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_mmap.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_network_io.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_network_io.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_poll.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_poll.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_pools.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_pools.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_portable.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_portable.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_proc_mutex.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_proc_mutex.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_ring.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_ring.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_shm.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_shm.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_signal.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_signal.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_strings.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_strings.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_support.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_support.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_tables.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_tables.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_cond.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_cond.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_mutex.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_mutex.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_proc.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_proc.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_rwlock.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_thread_rwlock.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_time.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_time.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_user.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_user.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_version.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_version.h': No such file or directory
cp: setting permissions for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_want.h': No such file or directory
cp: preserving ACL for `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0/apr_want.h': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ndrake/src/subversion-1.4.2/apr'
make: *** [external-install] Error 1

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

I should also note that I'm attempting this with Subversion 1.4.2.

EDIT: One other thing. If I do

sudo make install

inside of the apr subdirectory, the mkdir and cp commands work fine.

[deez0n]

I'm not sure that you will HAVE to rebuild Apache2. Here is a snippet from the release notes on tigris.org.



I would simply try it. I'm guessing that out of the box with this install, Apache2 will not see the new library ( which is in /usr/local/lib ). This library was built with the Apache Portable Runtime as packaged by tigris.org. That would need to be made available to Apache2 to gain Subversion 1.4 benefit.

If all else fails you may WANT to rebuild, to upgrade all related components to 1.4. In which case, follow the longer version of the install guide, first reading the INSTALL file looking for anything Apache related. There is an entire section devoted in the INSTALL file related to Apache.

You don't have to rebuild apache2, but you will want to install apache2-threaded-dev and run the auto-apt configure line with --with-apxs2=/usr/lib/apxs2, --enable-dav, and --enable-so

sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
sudo auto-apt run ./configure --with-ssl --enable-dav --enable-so  --with-berkeley-db=/usr --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2

I ran into some conflicts installing the subversion deb file, so I used

sudo dpkg -i --force-all subversion_1.4.2-1_i386.deb

also the new subversion install will add
the following lines to your /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_svn.so

If you installed libapache2-svn before, then these lines are redundant.
You will receive a couple of "module XYZ_mod is already loaded" warnings when you stop and start apache. They also appear in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.load. It is safe to remove the entries in httpd.conf.

[crouton]

They did actually do an about-face in 1.4 with regard to BDB.

From my reading of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/...asics.backends it seems that not much has changed.

The only real argument against FSFS is its relative immaturity compared to Berkeley DB. Unlike Berkeley DB, which has years of history, its own dedicated development team and, now, Oracle's mighty name attached to it, [32] FSFS is a much newer bit of engineering. Prior to Subversion 1.4, it was still shaking out some pretty serious data integrity bugs which, while only triggered in very rare cases, nonetheless did occur. That said, FSFS has quickly become the back-end of choice for some of the largest public and private Subversion repositories, and promises a lower barrier to entry for Subversion across the board.

I think it is a great idea that there are two choices for back-end storage, but my personal leaning is towards FSFS. Cross-platform portability and cross-operating system portability are very, very nice.