Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Updating Ubuntu Packages through PPA Ubuntu 12.04 with SVN 1.7 svn status -u svn: The path '.' appears to be part of a Subversion 1.7 or greater working copy. Please upgrade your Subversion client to use this working copy.

Personal Package Archives are not trusted however if you know the pusblisher you could at least manage the risk. Subversion 1.7 is not available for Ubuntu 12.04 so you need to trust the svn PPA if you want to install it in your Ubuntu desktop and avoid:
$ svn status -u
svn: The path '.' appears to be part of a Subversion 1.7 or greater
working copy.  Please upgrade your Subversion client to use this
working copy.
I see a lot of posts encouraging to modify /etc/apt/sources.list. Make sure if you do so you revert the changes after the installation. you should never have to edit manually sources.list. To install a particular package out of a PPA:
 
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:svn/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install subversion
Note that this will add some files:
$ ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  238 Dec  6 14:29 svn-ppa-saucy.list
To remove the ppa repos:
 
sudo add-apt-repository --remove -y ppa:svn/ppa
You will notice the list files has now size=0
 
$ ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec  6 14:33 svn-ppa-saucy.list

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