RE: Re: How to restore repositories from backup server

On 2025/01/12 23:29:05 Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:39:29 +0100, Daniel Sahlberg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >sön 12 jan. 2025 kl. 18:30 skrev Bo Berglund <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:53:43 -0600, Ryan Carsten Schmidt
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Jan 12, 2025, at 01:45, Bo Berglund wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I am not specifically interested in a *plaintext* password store,
what
> >> I want is
> >> >> to store the passwords locally (encrypted is fine) and accessible by
> >> svn when
> >> >> the system does not have a GUI desktop.
> >> >
> >> >As far as I know, a plaintext password is the only option for storing
a
> >> >Subversion password on a GUI-less system.
> >>
> >> OK, but how do I enable it on subversion then?
> >>
> >> I think I saw in one of the many posts and docs on the subject I have
read
> >> that
> >> subversion is no longer complied with the plaintext option....
> >>
> >> I don't know if this is true or not but then everyone with a headless
and
> >> GUI-less Ubuntu server is not able to use subversion????
> >> Strange.
> >
> >
> >Did you read the FAQ entry I sent?
> Yes
>
> >As you saw in your own post (the output from svn —version), the plaintext
> >cache was missing from your distribution’s binary package. But you can
use
> >the script to push a password to the plain text cache.
> >
> >From Subversion 1.15, much based on your previous threads, we have
changed
> >the compile time defaults to once again enable the plain text cache (but
> >it is entirely possible that your distribution will disable it).
> >
>
> So in which versions has the plaintext cache been removed?
> I checked on machines I have available and found this:
>
> On my Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS svn mirror server I have:
> svn, version 1.14.3 (r1914484)
> ----
> * Plaintext cache in /home/bosse/.subversion
> * Gnome Keyring
> * GPG-Agent
> * KWallet (KDE)
>
> And on the Rpi5B Bookworm in my home office:
> svn, version 1.14.2 (r1899510)
> ----
> * Plaintext cache in /home/bosse/.subversion
> * Gnome Keyring
> * GPG-Agent
> * KWallet (KDE)
>
> I also have another Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS laptop at home:
> svn, version 1.14.3 (r1914484)
> ------
> * Plaintext cache in /home/bosse/.subversion
> * Gnome Keyring
> * GPG-Agent
> * KWallet (KDE)
>
>
> All of these *cannot* be used since they can't see the main server on the
> company LAN...
>
> On the Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS server on the company LAN I want to use:
> svn, version 1.14.1 (r1886195)
> ------
> * Gnome Keyring
> * GPG-Agent
> * KWallet (KDE)
>
> And the RPi3B also on the company LAN I might use:
> svn, version 1.14.1 (r1886195)
> ------
> * Gnome Keyring
> * GPG-Agent
> * KWallet (KDE)
>
> On a Linux Mint 20.3 PC at home:
> svn, version 1.13.0 (r1867053)
> ------
> * Gnome Keyring
> * GPG-Agent
> * KWallet (KDE)
>
> It seems like svn 1.14.1 and below is the version in these devices which
does
> *NOT* support the plaintext cache while the next version 1.14.2. and
1.14.3 both
> do...
>
> Question:
> -----------
> Is it possible to get a newer svn version installed in Ubuntu than what is
> provided by the apt installer for the Ubuntu distribution?
>
> TIA.
>
>
> --
> Bo Berglund
> Developer in Sweden
>
>