Re: [gentoo-amd64] replacing manually installed subversion with portage version?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 07:36, "Drew Kirkpatrick" 
<drew.kirkpatrick@×××××.com> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] replacing 
manually installed subversion with portage version?':
> I've got a large gentoo server at work that hosts all our subversion
> data,
> my boss installed subversion manually
> instead of emerging it through portage,
> I'd like to  use the one from portage
> so that the package is properly maintained, but I know nothing of
> subversion.
>
> The data is actually stored on our raid, I would assume that simply
> removing the version he installed and emerging subversion would dot it
> since I believe the actual data is stored in the directory structure
> itself. But I wanted to get a sanity check before I blow away our
> subversion database in an uncaffeinated state :)
>
> Any thoughts, tips, or gotchas?

All SVN data is stored inside the repository directory, so as long as you 
don't touch that you should be fine -- barring any of the 
standard "upgrade gotchas".  You may need to restart your webDAV to use 
the new version of SVN.

In any case, since this is a potential data-loss situation, make a backup 
or two, test your backups if possible, and if resources allow it, image 
production and perform the operation on the image first.

I maintain my own SVN repository and am comfortable as a SVN user, but I 
don't consider myself an expert;  if you have time I suggest you consult 
SVN-specific mailing lists as well, since it's more likely an SVN expert 
will be able to help you.

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