On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 7:29 AM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Den mån 23 aug. 2021 kl 12:15 skrev Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com>: >> >> Anyway, concerning package maintainers, for Solaris, I'm getting even >> more depressed ... >> * We were using Collab.net's distro, but apparently their Solaris >> build is no longer maintained: >> https://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion >> * Wandisco then? Nope: >> https://www.wandisco.com/source-code-management/subversion#solaris ... >> only Windows, Linux and MacOS. >> * Fortunately, there is still a relatively recent build on OpenCSW: >> https://www.opencsw.org/packages/subversion/ > > > I have been working with Dagobert Michelsen of OpenCSW to build Subversion > 1.14.1 (mailing list thread starting at > http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/users/2021-August/010493.html). > > Due to my relative inexperience with Solaris I have not been able to compile > Subversion myself so I have had some problems to execute the complete test > suite but I have run the majority of tests and it all seems fine. The failing > tests are because some missing tooling and not because of errors in the > Subversion build. > >> >> (-> Wandisco's link should be removed from >> http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#solaris -- making that >> section empty ... or should we add a link to opencsw then?) >> (-> this abandoning of packagers / maintainers makes me feel our >> ecosystem is breaking down) > > > This was implemented in the main site as r1892681 > >> So I guess my best shot is contacting the maintainer of the openCSW >> package, and asking him to add the --enable-plaintext-password-storage >> configure flag and make a new build then. > > > I have raised this question, see mailing list thread above. > > Kind regards, > Daniel
Thanks Daniel. You're a star! :-) -- Johan
