Thanks for the response Danny. The site you mention below has old old versions (1.0.0). I have found 1.0.5 for SuSE which is what I am now using in production. I _was_ using 1.0.6 which I cannot find now, but I am working on locating them somewhere. I have had no problems using SuSE RPMs for subversion up to and including version 1.0.6. We are using it in production for an approximately 900 MB repository at the moment. My two issues with subversion on SuSE at the moment are the following: (1) The SuSE rpm for subversion 1.0.8 does not work when accessed via windows subversion client products such as rapidsvn or tortoisesvn. Access from a web browser from windows works fine. Access via the subversion clients results in a timeout waiting for apache. (2) Any version (up to and including subversion 1.1.0) that I configure, build, and install myself causes segfaults when accessed via apache. Using SuSE subversion via RPMs up to version 1.0.6 works fine. Thanks again, --Moby Danny Sauer wrote:

Moby wrote regarding '[SLE] subversion problems' on Thu, Sep 30 at 14:28:

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We were using subversion version 1.06 fine with no problems. I saw updated version of the RPMS for SuSE become available and upgraded to version 1.08. I noticed that with version 1.08, our RapidSVN and TortoiseSVN clients running Windows break. Basically they both give timeout errors. However, the subversion repository can be browsed fine with a web browser with no problems.

Since svn clients such as RapidSVN and TortoiseSVN are needed here, I had no choice but to back out of the subversion 1.08 upgrade. I could not located 1.06 RPMs anywhere but found my copy of the 1.05 RPMS. Installing subversion 1.05 RPMS seems has gotten us working for now.

This leads me with two questions, is anyone else out there able to successfully use svn clients such as Tortoise svn or RapidSVN to browse subversion repositories while running subversion 1.08 on SuSE (with apache2)? Also, does anyone know where I can get my hands on subversion 1.06 RPMS for SuSE?

You can get the original packages from ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ - just find your architecture and grab the packages. They're the same as what comes on the CD, etc.

I've had some problems with Subversion under SuSE, as well. It doesn't react well to really large imports, so it seems. I ended up building a new version myself, but it still doesn't seem to work reliably. I really wanted to convert our CVS repos over to SVN, but it's not going well as of right now... Too bad Trac doesn't support CVS, or too bad CVS can't really implement the improvements found in SVN.

--Danny, only halfway helping