= General =
{{{
emerge subversion
emerge --config dev-util/subversion
}}}
create a group for svn
{{{
groupadd -g 1010 svngrp
}}}
edit /etc/conf.d/svnserve and change the group
{{{
#SVNSERVE_USER="apache"
SVNSERVE_GROUP="svngrp"
}}}
Start the service and add it to default runlevel
{{{
/etc/init.d/svnserve start
rc-update add svnserve default
}}}


= Setting up access rights =
Setting up a new repository. I currently create a new group for each repository and assign users to the group if they need read/write access.
{{{
1) cd /var/svn
2) mkdir foorepo
3) svnadmin create foorepo
4) chmod -R 770 foorepo
5) chmod -R g+s foorepo/db
6) chgrp -R svn-foorepo foorepo
(svn-foorepo is the group name that I created in /etc/group to hold the svn users)
}}}