As a follow up to one of my previous posts I thought I should just write a little guide on how to setup Subversion on a Red Hat based system like Cent OS, Fedora, and of course Red Hat it self. This is the way I like to install subversion, it uses svnserve and xinetd, which means it starts on demand. When you make a call with e.g subversive in Eclipse towards your server, xinetd kicks in and starts svnserve to serve your request.
First we have to install the packages for subversion and xinetd.
# yum install subversion xinetd
Then we create a user for subversion, make a directory for it to work in, and give it ownership to that directory. This is done with the following commands:
# adduser -r -M -d /var/svn svn (-r creates a system account, -M the user home direcory will not be created, -d specifies user's login directory) # mkdir /var/svn # chown -R svn:svn /var/svn/
Now change to the svn user, and we can create the repository
# su - svn # svnadmin create /var/svn/repos
In your newly created repository there now a conf directory with a few files to modify. These are svnserve.conf and passwd. Change them to set the access rights of your repository.
Here is my svnserve.conf:
[general]
### These options control access to the repository for unauthenticated
### and authenticated users.† Valid values are “write”, “read”,
### and “none”.† The sample settings below are the defaults.
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
### The password-db option controls the location of the password
### database file.† Unless you specify a path starting with a /,
### the file’s location is relative to the conf directory.
### Uncomment the line below to use the default password file.
password-db = passwd
### The authz-db option controls the location of the authorization
### rules for path-based access control.† Unless you specify a path
### starting with a /, the file’s location is relative to the conf
### directory.† If you don’t specify an authz-db, no path-based access
### control is done.
### Uncomment the line below to use the default authorization file.
# authz-db = authz
### This option specifies the authentication realm of the repository.
### If two repositories have the same authentication realm, they should
### have the same password database, and vice versa.† The default realm
### is repository’s uuid.
# realm = My First Repository
And my passwd file:
[users]
hersson = mypassword
The last thing we have to do is to configure the svnserve for xinetd.
vi /etc/xinetd.d/svnserve
Paste the following:
service svn
{
port = 3690
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = svn
server = /usr/bin/svnserve
server_args = -i -r /var/svn
}
Now restart the xinetd service and you’re all done.
# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Connect to your repository with the following url
To checkout my reposistory I would write the following:
# svn co svn://hersson@localhost/repos
