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#!/bin/sh
echo "This script will reconfigure subversion to work with certs correctly."
echo "Steps outlined by dcrooke and compiled into this script by Kalosaurusrex"
echo "Please see the ubuntuforums.org thread for more information, questions or help."
echo "http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6057983"
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Please run this script as USER ONLY."
echo ""
echo "Press control-c to quit..else the script will start in 5 seconds."
sleep 5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl ssh expat libexpat1-dev libxyssl-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get remove subversion
sudo dpkg --purge subversion
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.12.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.12.tar.gz
tar xvfz subversion-1.6.12.tar.gz
tar xvfz subversion-deps-1.6.12.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.6.12/neon/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-ssl --with-pic
make
sudo make install
cd ..
rm -rf neon
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-ssl --with-neon=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
rm -rf subversion-1.6.12
rm subversion-1.6.12.tar.gz
rm subversion-deps-1.6.12.tar.gz
exit 0

This procedure does not appear to work under Ubuntu 10.04.

Install the Ubuntu openssl compiled Neon package

Since subversion encapsulates the SSL/encryption routines fully within the Neon package, by replacing this package it is possible trick subversion into using openssl without the need to recompile the subversion client. However, depending on how you implement this solution, you may effect all other Neon compiled packages on the system.

Ubuntu has two versions of Neon available.

• libneon27 (which uses openssl)
• libneon27-gnutls (which uses gnutls)

First you need to install the openssl version of Neon, assuming that it doesn't already exist on your system.

sudo apt-get install libneon27

Then you need to set a special environment variable called LD_PRELOAD to point to the openssl compiled version of Neon.

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libneon.so.27

Now when you try to execute anything compiled against the Neon library, the openssl version will be used.