In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Subversion on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before installing any package, it is important to update the system to ensure that we have the latest packages and security patches.
$ apk update && apk upgrade
To install Subversion on Alpine Linux, we need to use the apk package manager. Run the following command to install Subversion:
$ apk add subversion
This will install the latest version of Subversion along with all its dependencies.
Once the installation is completed, we can verify it by checking the version of Subversion.
$ svn --version
This command will display the installed version of Subversion.
To use Subversion, we need to create a repository. To create a repository, we can use the svnadmin command.
$ mkdir /var/svn
$ svnadmin create /var/svn/repo
This will create a new repository at the specified path.
We can configure access control to the repository by creating a conf directory inside the repository and then adding the authz and passwd files.
$ mkdir /var/svn/repo/conf
$ touch /var/svn/repo/conf/authz
$ htpasswd -c /var/svn/repo/conf/passwd {username}
This will create the necessary files for access control. Replace {username} with the desired username.
To start the Subversion server, we can use the svnserve command.
$ svnserve -d -r /var/svn
This will start the server and run it in the background.
To access the repository, we need to use the svn command.
$ svn co svn://localhost/repo test
This will checkout a working copy of the repository to a directory named test.
In this tutorial, we have shown how to install Subversion on Alpine Linux Latest and create a repository with access control. We have also demonstrated how to start the server and access the repository.
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