Re: [viewvc-dev] Lack of RHEL and CentOS compatibility

"C. Michael Pilato" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.viewcvs.devel
Organization CollabNet, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
HM 2K wrote:
> Today I installed viewvc to a CentOS VPS...
> 
> Only to find it's asking for a later version...
> 
> [root@vps112 /]# /usr/local/viewvc/bin/cgi/viewvc.cgi
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> <!-- ViewVC :: http://www.viewvc.org/ -->
> <head>
> <title>ViewVC Exception</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <h3>An Exception Has Occurred</h3>
> 
> 
> <h4>Python Traceback</h4>
> <p><pre>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py", line 3665, in main
>     request.run_viewvc()
>   File "/usr/local/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py", line 253, in run_viewvc
>     import vclib.svn
>   File "/usr/local/viewvc/lib/vclib/svn/__init__.py", line 30, in ?
>     raise Exception, "Version requirement not met (needs 1.2.0 or better)"
> Exception: Version requirement not met (needs 1.2.0 or better)
> 
> </pre></p>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> Checking with the CentOS repository I see this:
> 
> subversion.i386                          1.1.4-2.ent            installed
> 
> There is no 1.2.0 or above.
> 
> This is apparently due to backporting, meaning that software is bug
> fixed, but the versions aren't increased.
> 
> Please can you make your software CentOS and RHEL compatible.

With all due respect, Subversion 1.2.0 has been released for nearly 2 1/2
years now.  Subversion has since released several patches atop that, the
entire 1.3.x and 1.4.x lines, and is now closing in on a Subverion 1.5.0
release.  That your distribution is stuck in a time warp with respect to its
Subversion coverage is, in my opinion, the fault of the distribution.

Of course, you needn't be trapped by your distribution's choice of a
Subversion release.  You *can* always build a much, much newer Subversion
from source if you so desire.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand
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