[SVN-944] Adjust future RPM packages to save former svnadmin binaries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: nonblocking
• Component/s: install
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 23/Oct/02 15:56
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:39
• Resolved: 15/Sep/04 08:43

Description

FOR RPM PACKAGES....

Since the subversion database format is likely to evolve, it would be
helpful
if RPM packages did not overwrite the old svnadmin binaries (which are
the
only reliable way to salvage old format svn repositories).

Could the old subversion svnadmin binaries be saved (by the RPM
packager)
as svnadmin.rpmsave, or better yet, svnadmin.format0_VERSIONNUMBER?

Conventionally, this issue may seem unimportant... we all work with
only
one or two svn repositories... right?

Unconventionally, I am already using svn to administer version
tracking for
a quickly growing base of users (on a quickly growing base of
machines...of
different versions and installations).

Regardless of priority, I think this would be a widely convenient
enhancement
for many people.  (It makes it a little more of a vanilla-experience
as opposed
to a mind-expansion experience.)

Original issue reported by sharrison