Re: Error while trying to import /etc into Subversion

On Apr 2, 2006, at 21:07, Man-Chi Leung wrote:

> encountered error while i was trying to put /etc into SVN repository
>
> ---------------
> SVN Import :
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> $/usr/local/bin/svnadmin create /export/home/svn/etc-conf
> $cd /
> $svn import -m "server config" etc svn+ssh://root@domain_name/
> export/home/svn/etc-conf
>
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> Error Message:
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> svn: Unknown or unversionable type for 'etc/cron.d/FIFO'
>
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> FIFO 's file size = 0 ! does it matter to SVN?

No, what matters is that it's not a regular file but a FIFO. You
can't add those to a Subversion repository.

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-05/0002.shtml

Perhaps an in-place import, rather than a regular import, would work
better for you.

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import

Or, perhaps FSVS (which is based on Subversion libraries) would work
better. I don't know, but it's designed for putting /etc under
revision control, where Subversion itself is not really.

http://fsvs.tigris.org/purpose.html

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Received on Mon Apr 3 18:10:39 2006