Re: MacOS X problems---Corrupt repository

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:46:57AM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> "Hamilton Link" <helink@sandia.gov> writes:
> > I don't suppose there are any other ways in which the INSTALL file for
> > svn is increasingly out of date? It specifically says (still) that
> > 4.0.14 is the Berkeley DB version to use. Since I certainly have never
> > been able to definitively say what is and isn't required to run svn,
> > do people on the dev team occasionally give a quick peek at the FAQ
> > and INSTALL, etc. files?
>
> Generally, 4.0.14 is still the recommended Berkeley, but on Mac OS/X
> 4.1.24 or higher is required -- 4.0.14 will not work.

There are patches to 4.0.14 which were circulated about a year ago,
and cause it to work properly on Mac OS X. This is the setup I've run
since last October without problems. I haven't tried 4.1.25 recently,
but the last time I did, it repeatedly blew up in my face - corrupting
itself with a single commit.

The patch is available here:

<http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2002-10/0715.shtml>

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=Nicholas Riley <njriley_at_uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
        Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
  Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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