How to autostart svnserve on reboot and specify the default svn path?

Question

I'm trying to transfer a working subversion Ubuntu server to a CentOS server. Right now I just use svnserve, since I see no need for running it as an Apache module.

I installed svn on CentOS with

yum install subversion

Now I can create a repository with

svnadmin create reponame

and start it with

svnserve -d

Two things are bothering me though :

• I need svnserve to autostart on reboot.

• I want to use short paths, like svn://domain.com/reponame

instead of svn://domain.com/home/svn/reponame (I created the repository 'reponame' in /home/svn)

I know this can be done with the -r parameter , but is there somewhere a config file to set the default location ? And how would this work together with the autostart configuration?