Ecru - A private version control for configuration management (subversion)

To a standard VM, apply updates, and install the standard RPM's. SubVersion is part of the CentOS base repository. Use yum to install it (Note: The i386 version wanted to be installed, so I splicitly installed the 64bit version only).

# yum install subversion.x86_64

Create a repository 

# svnadmin create /home/svn

SvnServe

# chmod +x /etc/init.d/svnserve
# chkconfig --add svnserve
# chkconfig svnserve on
# adduser -r -M -c "SubVersion" svn

Edit the SvnServer configuration file '/etc/sysconfig/svnserve'. The root parameter must refer to the repository path created above.

OPTIONS="--listen-host=127.0.0.1 --root=/home/svn"

Create the SvnServer configuration '/home/svn/conf/svnserve.conf'

[general]
anon-access = none
password-db = passwd
# authz-db = authz
realm = Lucid Solutions

Add a username and password to '/home/svn/conf/passwd'. Change the ownswership of the entire SVN repositiry to be owned by the 'svn' user. The svnserve daemon runs as the 'svn' user.

# chown -Rv svn.svn /home/svn

Lastly start the SvnServe daemon

# service svnserve start

Using the repository

 Access is only via ssh. The svnserver process is only listening on the loopback interface. The local firewall prevents all access except ssh.

Links

• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
  

Appendices

[1] Installation info

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 subversion              x86_64     1.4.2-2.el5      base              2.4 M
Installing for dependencies:
 apr                     x86_64     1.2.7-11         base              118 k
 apr-util                x86_64     1.2.7-6          base               73 k
 neon                    x86_64     0.25.5-5.1       base               94 k
 perl                    x86_64     4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2  updates            12 M
 perl-URI                noarch     1.35-3           base              116 k
 postgresql-libs         x86_64     8.1.11-1.el5_1.1  updates           195 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      7 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 15 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

[2] SvnServe init script '/etc/init.d/svnserve'

#!/bin/bash
#
# svnserve        Startup script for svnserve
#
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: Subversion server
# processname: svnserve
# config: /etc/sysconfig/svnserve
# pidfile: /var/run/svnserve.pid 
# Source function library.
 
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions 
 

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/svnserve ]; then
        . /etc/sysconfig/svnserve
fi
 
pidfile=${PIDFILE-/var/run/svnserve.pid}
lockfile=${LOCKFILE-/var/lock/subsys/svnserv}
 
start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        daemon --user svn svnserve --daemon $OPTIONS
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch ${lockfile}
        return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
        killproc svnserve
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f ${lockfile} ${pidfile}
}
 
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  status)
        status svnserve
        RETVAL=$?
        ;;
  restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
  condrestart)
        if [ -f ${pidfile} ] ; then
                stop
                start
        fi
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"
        exit 1
esac
 
exit $RETVAL