On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Adam Tong <adam.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just downloaded svn to my fedora 14 using the command "yum install svn". > > The installation was successfull, but i cannot create a repository. > Here is the output: > > ------- > [root@mycomputer me]# svnadmin create /var/svn/repos > svnadmin: Repository creation failed > svnadmin: Could not create top-level directory > svnadmin: Can't create directory '/var/svn/repos': No such file or directory
Looks pretty obvious to *me*. The parent directories to create your Subversion repository, as desired, do not exist. Try "svnadmin create /tmp/testrepo" just to see that it works. Also, I urge you to consider whether you will support Apache access. If so, under Linux, the SELinux permissiosn for "/var/www" should allow you to share such contents without SELinux problems, and you should make your Apache directory at /var/www/svn/[reponame]. That way, you can also set up symlinks or virtual hostname configurations to hook normal web page access to that repo more gracefully.
