Thanks Ryan!
On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 7, 2007, at 17:28, belinda thom wrote:
How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra
variants used?
In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is:
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32 % port info subversion
subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn,
no_neon, no_bdb, mac_os_x_server_mod_dav_svn, tools, darwin_7)
http://subversion.tigris.org/
Subversion is a version control system designed to be as similar
to cvs(1) as possible, while fixing many outstanding problems with
cvs(1).
Library Dependencies: expat, neon, apr, apr-util, db44
Maintainers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I am uncertain how to determine what these things are (e.g.
tools). I know I don't want the server, but the others mean
nothing to me.
+mod_dav_svn builds you the Apache 2 module of that name. If you
want to serve a Subversion repository with Apache 2, you need this
variant. Since you said you don't want a server, you don't need this.
+no_neon builds Subversion without the neon library. Neon is for
connecting to http and https Subversion servers. If you want to
access repositories served with http or https protocols, do not use
the +no_neon variant.
+no_bdb builds Subversion without the BerkeleyDB library.
BerkeleyDB is one of the two possible ways a repository can be
stored on disk, though no longer the default way. Since you said
you're not hosting a repository yourself, you don't need
BerkeleyDB, so you can use this variant. However, if you really
want to avoid having BerkeleyDB on your system (as I do), you will
also need to first build the apr-util port with the +no_bdb
variant. Otherwise you get an apr-util which will itself pull in
BerkeleyDB.
+mac_os_x_server_mod_dav_svn I believe builds the Apache 2 module
for the Mac OS X Server version of Apache 2, instead of for the
MacPorts version of Apache 2 as the +mod_dav_svn variant does.
Since you're not planning to run a server, and probably don't have
Mac OS X Server, you don't need this variant.
+tools installs some additional tools that are provided with the
Subversion source code. Specifically, it installs everything listed
here into corresponding directories in /opt/local/share/subversion:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/
For example, I find the svn_load_dirs.pl script helpful.
On Jan 7, 2007, at 18:25, John Labovitz wrote:
I will say that from experience you will probably want
+mod_dav_svn, as it provides access to WebDAV-hosted repositories,
which includes many public SVN repos. I've tried building
Subversion with +no_neon and +no_bdb, but it either caused
problems later or didn't make any obvious difference.
Actually, mod_dav_svn lets you *serve* repositories over WebDAV. To
*access* WebDAV repositories, all you need is neon (that is, you
want to *not* specify +no_neon).
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