I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems that CentOS is kinda slow with their software updates. It’s not too big of a deal since CentOS is based off of RHEL so you can usually use RHEL 4-5 RPM’s, but those usually bombard me with failed dependencies. I find that the generic x86 RPMs do the trick, so for any of you trying to update your Subversion installations to a more recent version, here’s what you have to do on CentOS:

Optionally remove the old version by running yum remove subversion (assuming you installed with Yum)

wget http://the.earth.li/pub/subversion/summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/rhel-4/i386/subversion-1.4.5-1.i386.rpm
wget http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/apr/binaries/rpm/i386/apr-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
wget http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/apr/binaries/rpm/i386/apr-util-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm

rpm -i apr-util-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i apr-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i subversion-1.4.5-1.i386.rpm

Some people may have to do a ‘yum install postgresql-libs’ as for some reason APR wants that stuff.

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