RE: Was sent to this link to find fedora Subversion binaries

[Ubell, Chaz]

Karsten:
Thank you for the update.  It may be that the folks at the Subversion site need to get
their act together.  I will ping them.

Cheers, 
-cdu

Chaz Ubell
Project Engineer II

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-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Wade [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 4:44 PM
To: Ubell, Chaz
Cc: webmaster(a)fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: Was sent to this link to find fedora Subversion binaries

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:54:08PM -0500, Ubell, Chaz wrote:
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>  The following link did not function.
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>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/subversion 
Chaz:

I'm not sure why that link didn't work -- that is, I'm not sure if that is the
format of the path one might expect in the package database system.  The database
(PackageDB) is really meta-data about the packages:  where they've been built, by
whom, related bug reports, etc.

What I wanted to offer was that while you *can* find the package through that web
interface[1], that isn't really the way you would normally install software for Fedora
or any of the Linux distributions derived from it (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux.)

Binary packages are installed by the root (admin) user or a user with root privileges,
using either 'yum' on the command line or "System > Administration >
Add/Remove Software" on the GUI desktop.  The same system can also be used to just
download a package.

If you want more information, the guides here should covere it:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org.

Good luck - Karsten

[1] You may have found this, but from the broken URL above I did this:

1. Left column click on 'Packages'.
2. Search box for 'subversion', click on result.
3. The resulting page has a lot of metadata.  At the top is a link to
   'Build Status'.
4. The resulting information page, which is generated by a different
   web app (koji) has links to various build versions of the package.
5. Clicking on a version takes to a page about that build and it
   includes links to the source and binary RPM packages for various
   hardware architectures.

Be aware that if you download and install a package manually using the 'rpm'
command, you will have to resolve all the need for other packages (dependencies) by hand
-- a tedious and difficult task.  This is handled for you by 'yum', which is used
by the graphical tool as well as command line to resolve, fetch, and install package
dependencies.

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