RE: Newbie /etc/subversion question

You should understand that the /etc/subversion directory only applies to the
client machines and not the machine that is running the Subversion server
where the archive itself is stored. A user can override the settings of
/etc/subversion by creating their own configuration file under their $HOME
directory. Unless you have all of your users telnetting into the same Unix
box in order to run Subversion, setting up /etc/subversion really doesn't
make too much sense.
 
There are two client configuration files in Subversion. There's the
/etc/subversion, and there's the configuration files under each user's
$HOME/.subversion directory.It is $HOME/.subversion and not the
/etc/subversion directory that is created when a user executes Subversion
for the first time (including just typing "svn -version"). The documentation
is a bit confusing on this issue.
 
I've never bothered with /etc/subversion because it didn't make sense to use
it. If I am automouting $HOME directories, it makes more sense to put the
default files under /etc/skel and have them copied to $HOME/.subversion when
I create the user's ID anyway. Otherwise, I have to copy the /etc/subversion
directory to all the various clients.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael L Brown [mailto:michael.l.brown@philips.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:54 PM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Newbie /etc/subversion question

Due to a timeframe constraint, I can't go digging into every posting in the
archive.

I did find a little bit to help that kinda got me going, but I still have a
couple of questions.

Reference: Advanced Topics - Runtime Configuration Area

The book says that the system wide configuation area is /etc/subversion.
That directory was not created when the package was installed (Solaris 8),
so I created it manually.

Reference: Advanced Topics - Configuration Area Layout - third paragraph

The book says that to get a default set of configuration settings, is to
remove your copy and run a command, like "svn --version", and it will
recreate the directory and populate it with default info.

My questions. The /etc/subversion directory can't be created because svn
doesn't have permission to create said directory. After manually creating
the directory, and running the svn command again, it didn't populate it with
default files. How can one get it to do that? Why wasn't /etc/subversion
created when it was installed?

Thanks for any pointers.

MB

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