For anyone, like me, who's wanted a clean RHEL 4 compatible subversion 1.6.17, with source code, to build RPM's with and have consistent versions with other Red Hat releases, I present:
https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.6.17-srpm It's only tested in a few Scientific Linux 4, 5, and 6 environments. Rhere are some notes in the README. Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com