I recently was installing Django for a test project and needed to upgrade Python on a CentOS server to 2.6. The current revisions available via yum on CentOS are 2.4. The yum package manager requires Python 2.4 still to function properly so upgrading Python to 2.6 manually will break the CentOS yum package manager. After…
I was recently asked to move our subversion repository from one server to another. Both of the servers were in remote locations and all I had was ssh access.
When updating CentOS or RedHat via yum its possible to receive an error similar to the below. This error will cause an issue where yum will not work even though as described below the issue is typically isolated to one yum repository. Error:Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: dag. Please verify its path and…
Mounting a NTFS hard drive in CentOS Linux is fairly easy. In my case the drive was damaged and wouldn’t mount properly in Windows however I was able to put it into a USB hard drive enclosure and mount it under CentOS to recover the data. If you are mounting the drive via a external…
The below describes creating a SVN repository from a CentOS Linux shell followed by importing a SVN repository dump into the newly created repository. This can be useful for many reasons including moving servers or even just moving the location of an SVN repo. If you don’t have subversion installed go ahead and do so…
If you have been working on a project that is synced with the other developers using SVN which has recently moved don’t worry as you can update its remote repository location instead of trying to manually merge all of the file into a new copy of the repository. All you need to do is use…
You may receive an error similar to the one below stating that SVN cannot negotiate the authentication mechanism during initial installation of Subversion. I received the below error when I was testing a new SVN repository I had set up on a CentOS Linux server and was attempting to checkout the repo from another CentOS…
I recently started using Redmine for numerous projects and could not be happier with the application so far. Not only is it actively developed and already includes a ton of great features but it doesn’t seem bloated at all. Many of the projects I have configured for Redmine have their code base stored on Github…
I was attempting to clone a github repo on a Slicehost account and received the error below. Its possible that github.com recently updated DNS so if this happens to you then you can use the temporary fix I located on github’s twitter account. Error:fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (Name or service not…