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Re: : Subversion packages
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:11:19 +0400
- Subject: Re: : Subversion packages
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Christopher Faylor!
>>The problem is that the Cygwin installer does not provide a mechanism
>>for having more than two versions of the same package. I currently
>>provide (a somewhat out-of-date) 1.7 version as "prev" and the latest
>>1.8 as "curr". I can see no way to also provide 1.6.
> FWIW, I can only get one version of subversion on my gentoo system too:
> 1.7.13. On Fedora I can get 1.7.11. I could probably cast around and
> try to find older versions if I wanted to but it doesn't seem like this
> is something that those distributions handle seamlessly so it doesn't
> seem like this is something that Cygwin should really have to worry
> about either.
Normally, you can expect Subversion to transparently operate across different
mix of client and server versions, but they've made a... change[1]... back in
the days, that made working directories illegible in newer (1.7+) clients.
The 1.7 client has the means of converting 1.6 working directories to a new
format. I'm unsure, if 1.8 still have this ability.
[1] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#single-db
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.11.2013, <01:01>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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