How to install and use subversion by George Petasis

There are two ways to install subversion by either a) installing debian and chroot-ing into it (howto) or b) installing natively by cross-compiling subversion to run natively on the DNS 322. This page describes the latter (b).

There are pre-compiled binaries for the DNS 323 available from http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/DNS323/subversion-1.4.5-fun_plug-0.3.zip . These binaries were created for firmware version 1.03 and fonz fun_plug 0.3, from subversion 1.4.5 sources, available from http://subversion.tigris.org/ . The installation procedure for these pre-compiled binaries is as follows:

1. Install fonz fun_plug 0.3 from http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.3/funplug-0.3.tar.gz , install the fun_plug and reboot the DNS to activate it (fun_plug howto).
2. Download the subversion binaries from http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/DNS323/subversion-1.4.5-fun_plug-0.3.zip .
3. Unzip subversion-1.4.5-fun_plug-0.3.zip. You will find 2 files (subversion-1.4.5-fun_plug.d.tar & README.txt).
4. Copy subversion-1.4.5-fun_plug.d.tar to “Volume_1” (/mnt/HD_a2) of your DNS.
5. Telnet to your DNS.
6. cd /mnt/HD_a2
7. tar xvf subversion-1.4.5-fun_plug.d.tar
8. cd fun_plug.d/start
9. chmod a+x svnserve.sh
10. chmod a+x dropbear.sh
11. Reboot your DNS.

Forum user aleck provided some information about how to use the subversion binaries at the forum:

1. Telnet to DNS-323
2. Create the repository:
   svnadmin create /mnt/HD_a2/svn
3. cd /mnt/HD_a2/svn
4. cd conf
5. joe svnserve.conf
   • This will open the repository config file, where everything is commented out (with #). You need to uncomment the lines and setup whatever you need. This is what I (user aleck) did:

     [general]
     anon-access = read
     auth-access = write
     
     password-db = passwd
     
     authz-db = authz
     
     realm = nas

     “realm” can be anything you want. Just about anything. Save this file with Ctrl+K, then W. Exit joe with Ctrl+K, then Q.

6. Edit the password file, using joe or any other editor. In this file add lines in the form user = pass, whatever you want to use to access svn server. Save the file and exit from the editor:
   1. joe passwd
   2. Edit the password file.
   3. Save the file and exit from the editor.
7. Edit the authorisation file:
   1. joe authz
   2. Edit the file to be similar to the following:

      [/]
      * = rw

   3. Save the file and exit from the editor.
8. Restart the subversion server, in order to load the changes in the configuration files:
   /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/start/svnserve.sh restart
9. Now start you SVN client, on your machine and access svn server using:
   svn://nas/
   or whatever is the URL/IP for your DNS-323.