G'day John,
If you read the portability section of the Subversion FAQ [1] or
browse the archives of this list [2], you'll see that even FSFS based
repositories cannot be served from a Windows 98 machine (at least not
with versions <= 1.1.1).
Cheers,
Peter
[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#portability
[2] http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-11/0184.shtml
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dubery [mailto:jdubery@ukonline.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:46am
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Hassles using FSFS on win98
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using SVN for a while in win2k/winXP happily, and
> want to get it
> going on win98 too. OK, I know that a BDB repository does not
> work on win98,
> but I believe that FSFS should.
>
> Results with FSFS - I can create a repository, import files,
> and export
> files quite fine. However checkout fails with the following message -
> ======================
> D:\Playground>svn checkout file:///d:/playground/rp rpc
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///d:/playground/rp'
> svn: Can't get shared lock on file
> 'd:/playground/rp/locks/db.lock': The
> process
> cannot access the file because another process has locked a
> portion of the
> file.
>
> D:\Playground>
> ======================
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> John Dubery
>
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