Install Subversion on Fedora 8 Linux

I have been working on subversion installations for our developers on Fedora servers. Last week completed building new fedora 8 server to setup subversion on it. While installing subversion on new Fedora 8 server i have been making notes to have a quick handy documentation:

Preparing for subversion installation in Fedora 8:

By default Subversion comes pre-installed on Fedora, if you are using some other Linux flavor and don't know if you have subversion installed already here how you can verify:

[root@subversionsvr ~]# rpm -qa |grep subversion subversion-1.4.4-7

If you don't have subversion installed, you can install it using yum

[root@subversionsvr ~]# yum install subversion

Install mod_dav_svn on Fedora 8 :

If you are planning to access your subversion repositories using web (apache/http) server then you need to install apache configuration directives for subversion.

[root@subversionsvr ~]# [root@test ~]# yum install mod_dav_svn Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package mod_dav_svn.i386 0:1.4.4-7 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: mod_dav_svn i386 1.4.4-7 fedora 71 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 71 k Is this ok [y/N]:y Installed: mod_dav_svn.i386 0:1.4.4-7 Complete!

setting up subversion repositories

root@subversionsvr ~]# mkdir /svndir root@subversionsvr ~]# mkdir -p /svndir/repos root@subversionsvr ~]# mkdir /svndir/users root@subversionsvr ~]# mkdir /svndir/permissions

change permissions for subversion directories

[[root@subversion-svr /]# chown -fhR apache.apache svndir

Create a new subversion repository for fresh install

[[root@subversion-svr /]# svnadmin create /svndir/repos/projectA

Configure apache to access subversion directory

[[root@subversion-svr /]# cd /etc/httpd/conf.d

Add Location directive for subversion directory location. I have to created apache configuration file for subversion

[[root@subversion-svr conf.d/]# cat subversion.conf <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /svndir/repos AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion Repository" AuthUserFile /etc/svn-passwd Require valid-user </Location>

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