<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/16/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Emmott</b> <<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>Off topic noob question, please don't kill me - One reason I've stayed away from SVN is my lack of expertise with compiling from source. Are there ways to install from SVN via Yum? Again, sorry for the OT question and diverting this thread but I've often wondered if this was possible.
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<div>Compiling from source is actually quite easy. In fact - if you can install a distribution, and get your x-server running, going the next step to downloading the source and compiling it is not that much of a leap. it sounds more intimidating than it is.
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<div>I've been running on SVN for about a year now, and have found it reasonably stable. As others have pointed out - as long as you keep an eye on the lists and the commit/tickets, you'll know what to expect.</div>
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<div>I found this guide very helpful : <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora_Core">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora_Core</a> - and can be used with other distributions such as ubuntu as well (just changing yum to apt-get, etc).
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<div>If you are nervous about running SVN, compiling and screwing up your main set-up, one easy way to dip your toes in the water is to install VMware-server on your computer (assuming you've got enough memory), install a distribution on it (or use one of the VMware virtual appliances that come pre-configured) and practice with subversion and compiling on that.
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