Re: Downconverting repositories

On Mar 28, 2007, at 21:29, Matt Krass wrote:

> I am in the process of migrating severla SVN repositories to a new
> server running Ubuntu 6.10, since we want to use older, stable
> software, we're wary about updating anything beyond 6.10s package
> versions. However, it seems that the version of Subversion included in
> 6.10 is older than the one I used to create and maintain the
> repositories in question. Is there any way I can take my repositories
> and down-convert them so my version of the software can import them
> properly?
>
> My output when I try to do anything repository related is something
> like this:
> krass@storage:~/svn$ svnlook info repos/krass/
> svnlook: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale
> svnlook: warning: environment variable LANG is en_US
> svnlook: warning: please check that your locale name is correct

You need to set LANG to something reasonable, such as "en_US.utf8" or
whatever the locale is called on your system. It apparently doesn't
think "en_US" is a valid value on your system. See the contents of /
usr/share/locale for ideas.

> svnlook: Expected format '3' of repository; found format '5'

You could try "svnadmin dump"ing the repository (you'd have to use
the newer Subversion on the old server to do this), then "svnadmin
load"ing it into a new repository created on the new server with the
older Subversion. I don't know whether the dump format has changed
between these versions of Subversion, but if it's going to work, this
would be the way to do it.

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