diff --git a/build/subversion-build.sh b/build/subversion-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..300c94a2fa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/subversion-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
+
+export LDFLAGS=-s
+
+top=`pwd`
+tar xvfz $src
+cd subversion-*
+./configure --prefix=$top --with-ssl
+make
+make install
+cd ..
+rm -rf subversion-*
diff --git a/tmpl/subversion-0.20.1.nix b/tmpl/subversion-0.20.1.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..37a5d7ea376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tmpl/subversion-0.20.1.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+id : subversion-0.20.1
+
+src = url(http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/3440/subversion-0.20.1.tar.gz)
+
+build = ../build/subversion-build.sh