I am using an OpenSuSE 11.1 server as a repository for my software development projects and for client work. Looking for an easy way to install Git, Subversion and Darcs I stumbled upon a development repository for Yast/Zypper which contains a few scm packages.
It’s at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/scm/openSUSE_11.1/ This url can be added via Yast to the software repository list.
I found that it had some new version of already existing packages such as Subversion and Git. So I did
zypper install git
zypper install subversion
to update those already installed. Then I could do a ‘zypper install darcs’ for Darcs support (for my dokuwiki work) and a ‘zypper install tig’ for a nice Git text mode interface (nCurses).
This saved me a lot of time and upgrading is very easy… ‘zypper update’ or a simple ‘you’ (Yast Online Update) will do.
Tags: darcs, Development, git, project management, scm, subversion
