I need downgrade from Subversion 1.8 to subversion 1.7
I've upgraded system from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS Now I need downgrade from Subversion 1.8 to Subversion 1.7, because formats 1.7 vs 1.8 are different and I can not access to svn repo of my team.
I've failed to compile svn from sources: a lot of dependencies, strange errors.
I can not understand why svn has not been packed into standalone deb package. I'm sure there are a lot of people that need precisely one svn version and do not need forced svn upgrade.
So, my question is: how can I switch to svn 1.7 from 1.8, staying at Ubuntu 14.04?
Update I've installed svn 1.7.9 on ubuntu 14.04 from source. Then I've installed svn 1.7.9 on ubuntu 14.04 as described below via apt-get and source.list manipulations
Both cases resulted with message:
The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
- 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
This message means that I can not access svn repository of my team, because http/https support is not installed.
Update2 I hate Subversion and Ubuntu. The second day I spend trying to compile Subversion 1.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 with http/https support. No result. I do not understand, why formats 1.7 and 1.8 of Subversion uncompatible. I hate Subversion developers.
I do not understand, why the http/https support is absent in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/subversion/1.7.14-1ubuntu2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/libsvn1/1.7.14-1ubuntu2
Is it too difficult to give me ONLY ONE deb package, that I can install and forget about configuration?
I thought it'd take me for maximum 10 minutes: sudo apt-get install svn-1.7
But I spend my time configuring neon and serf and trying to fit for conditions of that I don't what.
Solution 1:
In order to expand Sylvain Pineaus answer a bit: I had the same problem as OP and I solved it like this:
I added the following lines at the end of /etc/apt/sources.list:
# REMEMBER TO DELETE THIS AFTER SVN 1.7 is installed
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy main
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy main universe restricted multiverse
Now remove the svn packages with version 1.8
sudo apt-get remove subversion libsvn1
update the sources
sudo apt-get update
and install the correct versions
sudo apt-get install subversion=1.7.9-1+nmu6ubuntu3 libsvn1=1.7.9-1+nmu6ubuntu3
Now we need to fix the version of the packages by
echo subversion hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo libsvn1 hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo libserf1 hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
The libserf1 is needed by subversion or libsvn1 and is now (in 14.04) called libserf-1-1, I guess.
Now remove the lines of /etc/apt/sources.list that were added and update the sources once again (just to be sure)
sudo apt-get update
Solution 2:
I'm building on top of other answers here, but this is a script that seemed to work for Trusty 14.04:
# remove old versions
sudo apt-get remove subversion libsvn1 libserf1
# add Wandisco's Subversion maintenance package
wget -q -O - http://opensource.wandisco.com/wandisco-debian.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://opensource.wandisco.com/debian/ wheezy svn17" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wandisco-subversion.list'
sudo apt-get update
# install the version provided by Wandisco
sudo apt-get install subversion=1.7.22-1+WANdisco libsvn1=1.7.22-1+WANdisco
# make sure they don't get automatically upgraded to the latest
echo subversion hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo libsvn1 hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo libserf1 hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
Solution 3:
I have the same issue where an update upgraded my subversion from 1.7.x to 1.8.x and it seems non trivial to re-install 1.7 back.
My compromise was to use svnkit, a java implementation of subversion from what I can make of it. http://svnkit.com/download.php
So I still have subversion 1.8 installed but v1.7 of svnkit.
Slow but I can live with this.
Why downgrade, you ask?
My version of intellij (12.x) doesnt play nice with 1.8.x
Solution 4:
Ok, I've solved by downloading https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/i386/subversion/1.7.14-1ubuntu2 and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/i386/libsvn1/1.7.14-1ubuntu2
Sorry for the trouble.
Solution 5:
Had the same Problem on Ubuntu 14.04, but on 64 instead of 32 Bit. Remove default version 1.8:
sudo apt-get remove --purge libsvn1
sudo apt-get remove --purge subversion
Download and install version 1.7 (.../amd64/... instead of .../i386/...)
libsvn1: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/libsvn1/1.7.14-1ubuntu2
subversion: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/subversion/1.7.14-1ubuntu2