Setting up Subversion on Solaris 10

In this series of posts I'm going to describe how I set up Subversion on a Solaris 10 machine. The instructions here are valid for subsequent releases such as Solaris Express Community Edition (Nevada) and OpenSolaris (Indiana), the only difference being the fact that Subversion is bundled with the Operating System.

I decided to host some Subversion (1.4.5) repositories on a Solaris 10 (update 5) server so I downloaded Subversion packages from Blastwave and installation was done in less than 5 minutes with a simple:

# pkg-get -i subversion

Once Blastwave's installer was done, the first thing I wanted to do was registering Subversion's daemon (svnserve) in the Service Management Facility. Writing an SMF manifest is not so hard but fortunately I found a manifest and a management script in OpenSolaris website and the job was done! Great work, guys.

Next steps

You can now:

• Read this post about how to set up Subversion as an inted service.
• Read this post about how you can set up Solaris projects or zones to control resource usage.
• Read this post about setting up SSH access to Subversion repositories.
• Read this post about how to set up Subversion post-commit hooks.
• Read this post about filtering Subversion commit using a post-commit hook.