Author: pierre
Date: Sun May 29 14:10:18 2016
New Revision: 17403
Log:
Remove obsolete commands and update links for the "Running
a subversion server" page
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general/prog/svnserver.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/prog/svnserver.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general/prog/svnserver.xml Fri May 27 01:27:28 2016
(r17402)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general/prog/svnserver.xml Sun May 29 14:10:18 2016
(r17403)
@@ -21,26 +21,6 @@
<para>This section will describe how to set up, administer and secure
a <application>Subversion</application> server.</para>
- <!-- <note>
- <para>The default build instructions for
- <application>Subversion</application> disabled the
- <application>Berkeley DB</application> repository back-end due to the
- errors encountered in the test suite while building the
- <xref linkend="subversion"/> package. This should not present a
- functionality issue as the FSFS repository back-end is now the default,
- and recommended by the <application>Subversion</application> development
- team.</para>
-
- <para>If you have existing repositories based on a
- <application>Berkeley DB</application> back-end and you followed the
- BLFS instructions for building <application>Subversion</application>,
- you'll need to dump the databases, create new repositories using the
- FSFS back-end, then then reload the data into the new repositories.
- Instructions for performing these operations can be found at <ulink
-
url="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.5"/>.
- </para>
- </note> -->
-
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Subversion Server Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
@@ -111,24 +91,26 @@
<sect3>
<title>2. Create a Subversion repository.</title>
- <para>With subversion-1.1.0 and greater, a new type of repository
- data-store is available, FSFS. There is a tradeoff for speed with
- the new backend, however, the repository can now be placed on a
- network mount, and any corruption does not require an admin to
- recover the repository. For more information and comparison between
- FSFS and BDB, see <ulink
-
url="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook-1.1/ch05.html#svn-ch-5-sect-1.2.A"/>.
+ <para>
+ There are several ways to set up a subversion repository. It is
+ recommended to have a look at the <ulink
+ url="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.html";>SVN
+ Book</ulink> corresponding chapter. A basic repository can be set up
+ with the instructions below.
</para>
- <para>Create a new <application>Subversion</application> repository with
- the following commands:</para>
+ <para>
+ Create a new <application>Subversion</application> repository with
+ the following commands (as the <systemitem class="username">root
+ </systemitem> user):
+ </para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m 0755 -d /srv/svn &&
install -v -m 0755 -o svn -g svn -d /srv/svn/repositories &&
-svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs
/srv/svn/repositories/svntest</userinput></screen>
+svnadmin create /srv/svn/repositories/svntest</userinput></screen>
<para>Now that the repository is created, it should be populated with
- with something useful. You'll need to have a predefined directory
+ something useful. You'll need to have a predefined directory
layout set up exactly as you want your repository to look. For
example, here is a sample BLFS layout setup with a root of
<filename>svntest/</filename>. You'll need to setup a directory
@@ -225,58 +207,9 @@
<sect3 id="svnserver-init">
<title>4. Starting the Server</title>
-<!--
- <para>There are a couple of ways to start <command>svnserve</command>.
- The most common way is to start it as an <command>inetd</command> or
- <command>xinetd</command> process. Alternately, you can use a
- bootscript to start the service at startup.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>If you do not wish to provide anonymous access to your svn
- repositories or use <command>svnserve</command>'s built-in
- authentication, you do not need to run
- <command>svnserve</command>.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para>If you use <command>inetd</command>, add a line to
- <filename>/etc/inetd.conf</filename> using the following
- commands:</para>
-
- <indexterm zone="svnserver svnserver-init">
- <primary sortas="e-etc-inetd.conf">/etc/inetd.conf</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>cat >> /etc/inetd.conf << "EOF"
-<literal>svn stream tcp nowait svn /usr/bin/svnserve svnserve -i</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>If you use <command>xinetd</command>, the following command will
- create the <application>Subversion</application> server file as
- <filename>/etc/xinetd.d/svn</filename>:</para>
-
- <indexterm zone="svnserver svnserver-init ">
- <primary sortas="e-etc-xinetd.d-svn">/etc/xinetd.d/svn</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>cat >> /etc/xinetd.d/svn << "EOF"
-<literal># Begin /etc/xinetd.d/svn
-
-service svn
-{
- port = 3690
- socket_type = stream
- protocol = tcp
- wait = no
- user = svn
- server = /usr/bin/svnserve
- server_args = -i -r /srv/svn/repositories
-}
-
-# End /etc/xinetd.d/svn</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen> -->
- <para>To start the server at boot time, install the svn bootscript
included
- in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>
+ <para>To start the server at boot time, install the svn bootscript
+ included in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>
<indexterm zone="svnserver svnserver-init">
<primary sortas="f-svn">svn</primary>
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