= 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 =
I currently create a new group for each repository and assign users to the group if they need read/write access.
{{{
cd /var/svn/
chmod -R 770 repos
chmod -R g+s repos/db
chgrp -R svngrp repos
}}}
(svngrp is the group name that I created in /etc/group to hold the svn users)

Edit /etc/groups and add the users to the group svngrp


Edit /var/svn/repos/conf/svnserve.conf (and set the following parameters)
{{{
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
realm = TTD_SVN
}}}
Edit /var/svn/repos/conf/passwd and add the users (see examples)

= Setting up SSH access =
Users that use the svn need to have ssh access set up correctly to the server. This has to be done by ssh-keys.

See http://linuxproblem.org/art_9.html