* A function to fetch sources from a Subversion repository.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=544

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchsvn/builder.sh b/pkgs/build-support/fetchsvn/builder.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..2208b2c6982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchsvn/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+buildinputs="$subversion"
+. $stdenv/setup
+
+echo "exporting $url (r$rev) into $out..."
+
+svn export -r $rev "$url" $out || exit 1
+
+echo $rev > $out/svn-revision || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchsvn/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchsvn/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9a989123928
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchsvn/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{stdenv, subversion}: {url, rev}: derivation {
+  name = "svn-checkout";
+  system = stdenv.system;
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  stdenv = stdenv;
+  subversion = subversion;
+  url = url;
+  rev = rev;
+}