When I originally installed my Subversion server on the Synology box way back in March 07 the firmware on the box was pretty much OEM. I’d tweaked the firmware to allow telnet, but that was about the only upgrade I’d got.
Well, since my I received my winning iPod I hadn’t really considered using the full capability of the Synology box, including it’s iTunes server.
So, I’ve bit the bullet, and upgraded the firmware!
Braving the WHOPPING 300 version number difference, i downloaded the latest firmware from the Synology site, and installed it, after making sure my SVN repository was backed up of course!
Anyway, the update went without a hitch, and , WOW, what a difference on the front end. First of all they’ve gone all Ajax-y – there are lots of interactive panels and controls now compared with the old static pages.
After i’d finished playing with all the sliding panels, I booted up Putty to check the telnet access. Yep, still there. I referred back to the old article on installing SVN on the Synology box, and upgraded the packages using IPKG.
However, when i came to boot up the svnserve daemon I started getting missing lib errors. I’ve seen some of those in the original article comments, and lots of people had mailed me saying that the instructions don’t work. So, I poked around, and found that IPKG hadn’t actually upgraded all of the packages successfully. Scrolling back up the window there were two errors downloading some of the package updates. So, I re-ran IPKG upgrading again, and this time the packages did download ok.
I ran svnserve, and it fired up immediately. Going back to my PC, straight into TortoiseSVN’s repository browser, and we’re back in business.
So, if you’ve followed the original Synology Subversion article, and are having problems – make sure you don’t have any errors when running IPKG. If you do , re-run it and let it re-try download the missing dependent packages, or alternatively download them by hand and copy them to the Synology box by hand.
So, I can confirm that the original Synology Subversion Hack & Install does still work on the DS106e with the very latest firmware.
And, now I can get to my music via iTunes too. Synology you guys ROCK.