Originally posted by: deesk

Had a question if anyone has had any any experience installing the Subverison client on AIX 7. If so can you please possibly document the steps or some type of quick method to get this running. I have ran into many issues with the  install, RPM dependencies and other crazy things. Wondering if IBM has any quick way of getting this going?

Thanks for any help

Originally posted by: Bryan B

I haven't installed SVN on AIX, but I just got GIT installed on AIX 7.  Take a look at my thread and see in the directions if there is anything that will help you resolve the dependences.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=b50b11a4-4724-40ca-82a4-9e8d69877c21&ps=

Originally posted by: sanket

Hi,

subversion and all its dependencies are present on AIX Toolbox.

For ease we are also providing YUM to install open source packages from AIX toolbox.

You can refer for my previous post for YUM installation on AIX

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=7b40a6b0-35cc-4deb-87fe-72824fbd3170&ps=25

and then just

# yum install subversion

You can also install subversion without yum but then you will have to download all dependencies manually.

Thanks

Sanket

Originally posted by: andys++

Following the above instructions has allowed me to install subversion on AIX6.1, for which many thanks.  The instructions say "Download and install the rpms from yum_bundle_v1.tar", so first time around I simply extracted the contents of the tar file, and then ran "rpm --install *" .. and got a number of errors, mainly about the lack of libssl and libcrypto.  Installing the rpms via geninstall  (or rather smitty) worked fine. 

Wish I'd known about yum working a long time ago .. I think that more should be made of this on the "AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications" webpages, since it makes installing those tools far more simple.

However, subversion appears to have been compiled without serf support for http/https, so you cannot use either of these protocols with svn.  Any chance of subversion being compiled with support for these protocols ?

Many thanks

Andy
 

Originally posted by: sanket

Hi Andy,

Good to hear that it worked for you.

Yes the current subversion is without serf. We need to first port serf for AIX and then rebuild subversion with that support.

We will add that into our todo list.

Between the "AIX Toolbox for Linux Application" webpage has been updated with YUM support.

On download tab the first thing it talks about YUM.

Thanks

Sanket

Originally posted by: andys++

That sounds great !

If I might add another request ..  could you compile the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications to support large files - or rather large inodes.  Most particularly subversion and git .. truss shows that both error in getdirent():

getdirent(3, 0x200FFAC8, 4096)                  Err#127 EOVERFLOW

Regards

Andy

Originally posted by: sanket

Yes we realized this issue and we started compiling packages in 64bit (where large file support comes by default) or with large file in 32bit binaries.

Thanks

Sanket

Originally posted by: andys++

That is good to hear .. I await 64 bit subversion and git :-)

One other suggestion/request (or perhaps I just can't see the info) .. would it be possible to include a "last updated" date somewhere in the Toolbox webpages, so we can tell whether updated packages are available .. perhaps it's too much to include the last built date for each package, but how about a date next to the link to the readme ?

Regards

Andy
 

Originally posted by: sanket

You can view webpage in date mode

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/date.html#downloads

But this webpage is not always in sync with our actual repository. I has some delay in update compare to our repository.

You can always look at the repository for latest updates.

https://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/

Thanks

Sanket

Originally posted by: andys++

Thanks for those links .. obvious once you know where to look.

For the 32 bit binaries I think that may not be not sufficient just to specify -D_LARGE_FILES, since this option doesn't appear to affect directory routines .. it's more a question of using opendir64() (and associated functions) rather than opendir() ..

Thanks and Regards

Andy

Originally posted by: AnuRaja

When will subversion with serf (webDAV)  be ready? 

Originally posted by: sangameshm

We are able to build the package and waiting for the legal approval for distributing it on AIX Toolbox.

Hopefully it will be done soon.

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: AnuRaja

I tried to install it from www.perzl.org. I was able to install SVN with Serf.

But SVN module(mod_dav_svn.so) for httpd is not loading, Any Idea ?

Error: 

/opt/freeware/sbin/apachectl -t
httpd: Syntax error on line 522 of /opt/freeware/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 5 of /opt/freeware/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-subversion.conf: Cannot 

load /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so into server: rtld: 0712-001 Symbol dav_xml_get_cdata was referenced\n      from module 

/opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so(), but a runtime definition\n\t    of the symbol was not found.\nrtld: 0712-001 Symbol dav_get_locktoken_list was 

referenced\n      from module /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so(), but a runtime definition\n\t    of the symbol was not found.\nrtld: 0712-001 Symbol 

dav_xmlns_add was referenced\n      from module /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so(), but a runtime definition\n\t    of the symbol was not found.\nrtld: 

0712-001 Symbol dav_register_provider was referenced\n      from module /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so(), but a runtime definition\n\t    of the symbol 

was not found.\nrtld: 0712-001 Symbol dav_get_liveprop_info was referenced\n      from module /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so(), but a runtime 

definition\n\t    of the symbol was not found.\nrtld: 0712-001 Symbol dav_do_find_liveprop was referenced\n      from module 

/opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so(), but a runtime definition\n\t    of the symbol was not found.\nrtld: 0712-001 Symbol dav_hook_gather_propsets was 

referenced\n      from module /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so(), but a runtime definition\n\t    of the symbol was not found.\nAdditional errors occurred 

but are not reported. 

Originally posted by: AyappanP

We generally won't support issues encountered with rpms taken from sites other than AIX toolbox. Anyway in this case, you have to make sure this module "mod_dav.so" is loaded. (check the http.conf file).

Originally posted by: AnuRaja

Thanks for your reply, 

First I tried AIX tool box's subversion,

As it has no support for http/https repository (serf), i tried it from other sites. 

Thank you. 

Originally posted by: AnuRaja

Now I tried it from AIX Tool box,  SVN and HTTP are working ....after installing mod_dav_svn, I am getting below error.    

httpd: Syntax error on line 535 of /opt/freeware/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 5 of /opt/freeware/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-subversion.conf: Cannot load /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so into server: Could not load module /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so.\nSystem error: No such file or directory

Originally posted by: AyappanP

I just checked the contents of mad_dav_svn rpm. It seems like a packaging issue. The mod_dav_svn.so file is in /opt/freeware/libexec directory. So you may need to edit the httpd-subversion conf to point to this location Or you can copy the .so file to /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules. 

Originally posted by: AnuRaja

Ayappan, 

Thanks a lot....it was in /opt/freeware/libexec.. now it works......

Originally posted by: Eric Covener

Similar question, what about https support in the subversion client?

Originally posted by: SriNarayan

Do you have any updates on the availability of the svn client with http and https support?

Thanks.

-Sri

Originally posted by: RaviramS

Please check this link : Installation and configuration of Apache Subversion on IBM AIX 7.1 with LDAP and SSL

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-aix-install-config-apache-subversions/

Hope this helps with installation and configuration both.

Originally posted by: andys++

Thanks for this.  However, is there any news about the (as of 2017-06-01) forthcoming new subversion rpm containing support for large inodes, http and https ?  Is it still awaiting IBM legal approval ?

FWIW I'm interested in AIx as an svn client, not as an svn server ..

Ta

Andy

Originally posted by: Charlie Braun

Are there any updates on this ?

When I try to install Subversion 1.9.4 - 1.9.7 I get he following error:

# rpm -ivh subversion-1.9.4-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

subversion                  ##################################################

 # rpm -ivh subversion-tools-1.9.4-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

subversion-tools            ##################################################

mkdir: 0653-358 Cannot create /opt/RPM_inst_root/var/opt/freeware/tmp/perl-root.

/opt/RPM_inst_root/var/opt/freeware/tmp/perl-root: Do not specify an existing file.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_dir() returned an unexpected result.

rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_inst_root() returned an unexpected result.

The Directory /opt/RPM_inst_root/var/opt/freeware/tmp/perl-root didn't exist before the Installation.

When I install Subversion 1.9.3-1 the installation is working but I'm missing the scheme for http. I only need the Client, not the Server - do I then still need httpd and mod_dav_svn ?

In the link https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-aix-install-config-apache-subversions/ the last picture doesn't show that http is supported, is this correct ?

Originally posted by: AyappanP

The error messages are due to some issues with symbolic links. We will try to fix these in the future releases. But the rpm installation would have succeeded.

There is nothing much to get panicked here. You can use the latest subversion and ignore these errors during installation.

If you need only the client, then there is no need to install mod_dav_svn. Httpd is still required since the svn command depends on apr library which is getting shipped through httpd rpm.

You can use AIX Opensource forum for these kind of queries. 

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=2eb0f36d-9534-471b-8b27-c21e6c5b9b2b

Originally posted by: Charlie Braun

Seems that the Subversion client is working without subversion-tools. So subversion 1.9.7 can be installed without errors and there http support is included. (httpd is a prerequisite)