Well, the only rpm repository out there offering subversion above 1.4.x was / is rpmforge (aka DAG).
In order to add rpmforge to your RedHat / CentOs repository one has to update their yum repositories by installing the rpmforge-release package which you can also find @: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/
The problem I encountered was, I had a Centos 5.5 x86_64 with subversion & mod_dav_svn 1.4.2, after updating to the latest rpmforge-release, I expected a
An important notice to users of the hot-backup.py utility which ships with subversion.
I found our nightly backup of subversion was failing with the following error:
svnadmin: Can't open file '/pathtorepo/db/fsfs.conf': No such file or directory
What was troubling me was:
Here is a nice and simple solution for keeping the Hudson configuration in SVN.
I believe it's much better than just backup it since in SVN (or another version control) you are able to see the history and quickly revert the changes.
See the full article here.
subversion has been accepted as a top-level project of apache: http://subversion.wandisco.com/component/content/article/1/43.html
It was one of those tasks that you think "i'll finish with it in a couple of hours", but i found myself dealing with it for more than 2 days...
Subversion 1.5 is out for some time now but no one in the ubuntu project add an apt-get package to the repositories. Until it will be done, using svn 1.5 on ubuntu box mean building subversion from source in the good old Linux way.
Subversion provide a ready to build tarball using gnu utils. Once downloaded and untar - cd into the root folder (subversion-1.5.2 in my case) and run:
$./configure <long output ...> $make <even longer output ...> $sudo make install
And that it. well - almost.
I came across some issues during the process:
The Subversion team announced the release of Subversion 1.5.0.
The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes at the link