I have 1.4.2 version of svn on my RHEL 5.3 box. I tried updating and I get the following message. What should I do ?

[foo@bar adminui]# svn --version
svn, version 1.4.2 (r22196)
   compiled Sep  1 2008, 06:38:03

Copyright (C) 2000-2006 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme

[foo@bar adminui]# which svn
/usr/bin/svn
[foo@bar adminui]# yum update svn
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

I need to get to 1.6.x version of svn to get my work done.

UPDATE1

[foo@bar target]# yum update subversion
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

How can I trick the "yum" tool to go fetch the right version of subversion ?

UPDATE2

# yum repolist
repo id              repo name                                status
adobe-linux-i386     Adobe Systems Incorporated               enabled :      17
base                 Base Repo for 5.30-5Client - x86_64      enabled :   1,953
desktop-install      Recurring Desktop installs               enabled :       0
desktop-update       Recurring Desktop updates                enabled :     143
engineering-install  Recurring Engineering installs           enabled :       0
engineering-update   Recurring Engineering updates            enabled :      42
epel                 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 -  enabled :   6,897
google               Google - i386                            enabled :       5
google64             Google - x86_64                          enabled :       4
rbel5                RBEL 5 Repo                              enabled :     197
rpmforge             Red Hat Enterprise 5.30 - RPMforge.net - enabled :  11,020
vt                   Base Repo for 5.30-5Client - x86_64      enabled :      40
workstation          Base Repo for 5.30-5Client - x86_64      enabled :   1,205

I removed a few organization specific repos from the above listing for privacy/security.

What should I do to update subversion to the latest version?

UDPATE 3

I found that our admins have the latest version of svn at /usr/corp/bin. Thanks for your answers and time :-)

anjanbacchu

Posted 2012-02-08T02:20:10.760

Reputation: 885

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The package is called "subversion", and is at version 1.6.11.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Posted 2012-02-08T02:20:10.760

Reputation: 100 516

thank you.

[root@abacchu-lnx target]# yum update subversion Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update [root@abacchu-lnx target]# – anjanbacchu – 2012-02-08T06:24:26.327

any idea what I need to do ? thanks. – anjanbacchu – 2012-02-09T04:14:43.820

You can't 'trick' yum tool to do anything. To answer your question, updating the subversion package is as simple as yum update subversion. The latest version of svn in RHN 5 repo is 1.6.11-7. If that dosn't work check if you have registered yum repolist.

Also patch your Linux box to RHEL 5.7, you are way behind my friend.

Dejan

Posted 2012-02-08T02:20:10.760

Reputation: 914

pls. see UPDATE2 in the question. RHEL 5.7 : the software we're developing is targetted at 5.3 and hence we need to test for 5.3. "yum update subversion" : pls. see Update1 above. Thank you. Any further ideas ? – anjanbacchu – 2012-02-13T04:36:58.213

Your other option then is to compile svn from source, I had the same issue with an outdated git client on RH5. – Dejan – 2012-02-13T14:32:37.707

thank you. will try that. <rant>Why doesn't Linux have windows style INSTALLSHIELD setups that install all the dependencies ?</rant> – anjanbacchu – 2012-02-15T00:30:31.917

how to update svn package on RHEL 5.3?

UPDATE1

UPDATE2

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