How to: Upgrade SVN to 1.7 on CentOS
After searching through the web, I managed to find bits and pieces about upgrading subversion from 1.6 to 1.7 on CentOS. Unfortunately , it is like unraveling a puzzle, every blog starts from a slightly different corner and came across different blocks. I was strapped in perpetual trying and failing because of this. So I thought I better summarise and share my whole experience, along with the pitfalls while trying to work it out. The upgrade, in a nutshell, is a process of uninstalling the current version of svn, and download, compile and install the target version. Prerequisites CentOS, SVN 1.6 Recipes and Tasting 1. Remove current svn That's right! You heard me, be brave and remove svn using: # yum remove subversion 2. Download target version of svn Go to the following location: # cd /usr/local/src/ And download the the target version of svn using: # wget http://apache.mirrors.timporter.net/subversion /subversion-1.7.16....