diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
index eb9e7b5..2a14c5d 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Feb  8 16:00:48 UTC 2011 - adrian@suse.de
+
+- always trust svn server certificate. We don't have a secure handling
+  for it anyway. Trust needs to established via extra service.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan 12 10:02:41 UTC 2011 - adrian@suse.de
 
diff --git a/tar_scm b/tar_scm
index f3fc698..3883672 100644
--- a/tar_scm
+++ b/tar_scm
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ if [ "$MYSCM" == "svn" ]; then
        cd "$MYSUBDIR"
     fi
     if [ -n "$MYREVISION" ]; then
-      svn co -r"$MYREVISION" "$MYURL/$MYSUBDIR" "${FILE}" || exit 1
+      svn co --trust-server-cert -r"$MYREVISION" "$MYURL/$MYSUBDIR" "${FILE}" || exit 1
     else
-      svn co "$MYURL/$MYSUBDIR" "${FILE}" || exit 1
+      svn co --trust-server-cert "$MYURL/$MYSUBDIR" "${FILE}" || exit 1
     fi
     if [ -n "$MYSUBDIR" ]; then
        cd -