How to update Python bindings to subversion.

nospam@example.com (Pieter de Rijk) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:33:52 +0200

Recently I run into the problem that a team had a requirement for subversion 1.6.6 (while CentOS 5u3 was not supporting this... but the vendor didn't provide a newer release). This team also had a requirement to have TRAC... TRAC is depended on Python... but I was not allowed to update the subversion bindings for python by updating the it on the whole system... so... this is what I did:

Installed a number of devel packages:

   # yum install apr-devel neon{,-devel} apr-util-devel

Compiled sqlite version 3.6.13 and installed it on NFS:

  $ ./configure --prefix=/nfs/apps/webservices/trac-parent/sqlite/3.6.13

  ...

  $ make ; make install

  ...

Compiled subversion 1.6.6 and installed it on NFS:

$ make clean; ./configure \

 --prefix=/nfs/apps/webservices/trac-parent/subversion/1.6.6 \

 --with-sqlite=/nfs/apps/webservices/trac-parent/sqlite/3.6.13 \

 --without-neon 

...

$ make -j8 ; make install ; make swig-py ; make install-swig-py

…

Added the following line to /etc/sysconfig/httpd:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/nfs/apps/webservices/trac-parent/sqlite/3.6.13/lib/

Modified /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac.conf by adding a ‘PythonPath’ to the location-directive:

<Location /projects>

  ...

  PythonPath "['/nfs/apps/webservices/trac-parent/subversion/1.6.6/lib/svn-python'] + sys.path"

</Location>

Restart the trac daemon:

# service httpd stop

# service httpd start

Now you’ve to resync the trac-instance with Subversion (the
repository_dir value in the trac.ini of the instance).. but make sure
you use the correct bindings in Python:

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/nfs/apps/webservices/trac-parent/sqlite/3.6.13/lib/

# export PYTHONPATH=/nfs/apps/webservices/trac-parent/subversion/1.6.6/lib/svn-python

# trac-admin ${TRAC_INSTANCE_PATH} repository resync "*"

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How to update Python bindings to subversion.