Setting up an svn server howto

[Roberto Ragusa]

Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using F14 and need to set up an svn server without going through the
> fun and games that is apache and mod_web_dav.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of a good, simple to follow how to
> on setting up an svn server please?

http://queens.db.toronto.edu/~nilesh/linux/subversion-howto/

Really easy. You basically: (option 2 of the web page)
a) use "cd /wherever/you/want/the/repo; svnadmin create my1strepo" to create the repo
b) run "svnserve -d -r /wherever/you/want/the/repo"to launch the daemon
c) ...done (well, you may want to config users/permissions and check your
firewall)

The default storage method is not apache/webdav anymore; fsfs is much
simpler (for example, doing backups of the repo is trivial and efficient).

The only annoyance could be that some distros do not ship a proper init.d
file to start svnserve (I wonder why).

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