Hosting Subversion service on the ReadyNAS

This article on how to install a Subversion (SVN) was originally written by our forum member rocket15, and modified for readynas.com.

I managed to create a svn repository on my ReadyNAS Duo. This is what i have done to get the job done:

Install the following ReadyNAS add-ons:

• EnableRootSSH
• APT

They’re available on the ReadyNAS Add-ons page.

Then login to your ReadyNAS as root with SSH (you can use putty) and follow the steps below:

Step 1

Download the needed packages using wget (won’t work with apt-get because of old libc6 of ReadyNAS):

# wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-2_sparc.deb
# wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/neon26/libneon26_0.26.2-4_sparc.deb
# wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/db4.4/libdb4.4_4.4.20-8_sparc.deb
# wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/libsvn1_1.4.2dfsg1-2_sparc.deb
# wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.4.2dfsg1-2_sparc.deb
# wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/libapache2-svn_1.4.2dfsg1-2_sparc.deb

Step 2

Install the downloaded packages (ignore the warnings you get while installing):

# dpkg -i libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-2_sparc.deb
# dpkg -i libneon26_0.26.2-4_sparc.deb
# dpkg -i libdb4.4_4.4.20-8_sparc.deb
# dpkg -i libsvn1_1.4.2dfsg1-2_sparc.deb
# dpkg -i subversion_1.4.2dfsg1-2_sparc.deb
# dpkg -i libapache2-svn_1.4.2dfsg1-2_sparc.deb

Step 3

Then create a subverison repository.

# mkdir /c/svnstore/
# svnadmin create /c/svnstore/project_test
# chown admin:admin /c/svnstore/ -R

Step 4

Configure Apache to serve Subversion:

# cd /etc/frontview/apache/addons
# vi subversion.conf

(press i and shift ins the following content, afterwards :wq to save and exit)

LoadModule dav_svn_module     /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_svn.so

<Location /svn_test>
   DAV svn
   SVNPath /c/svnstore/project_test

   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "Subversion Test Repository"
   Require valid-user
</Location>

Step 5

Now restart the Apache server and test your Subversion config.

# /etc/init.d/frontview restart

Now you can checkout your project files with a svn client (Tortoise) with the following url:

http://<readynas>/svn_test/

Let me know if this working for you too!!!

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