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Re: svn 1.6 - compression svndiff format data failed

From: Phil <cwstorm_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:01:11 -0500

Daniel,

Please forgive me but I'm not familiar with *.py

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:

>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-viewspec.py
>
>
> Phil wrote on Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 16:44:36 -0800:
> > Well, it turns out that the other application does not support svn v1.7
> but
> > only v1.6. Too bad I still cannot get v1.6 to perform massive checkout
> > using the "svn co svn://..." syntax. I guess I would have to write a
> unix
> > shell script to help speed up my manual process. What I'm doing is first
> > perform "svn co svn://... -depth immediate". Then "svn update -depth
> > infinity" on each of the package folder (total 155). Please let me know
> if
> > anyone is able to figure this out and get it working. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Phil <cwstorm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe I should download and get a better zlib package. Let me try and
> > > keep everyone posted.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Phil <cwstorm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have about 155 packages in the repository that I want to checkout.
> > >> This has never worked with v1.6. The workaround is to checkout each
> > >> package one at a time (svn co svn://). As you can see, that's very
> > >> tedious. I assume subversion doesn't care how many packages are in my
> > >> repository. I did the basic installation of svn v1.6 (tar'ing
> > >> subversion-1.6.17.tar and subversion-deps-1.6.17.tar). Then I did
> another
> > >> installation but with v1.7 to see if I ran into the same issue. I
> > >> installed it on a different directory location. I was able to
> checkout the
> > >> 155 packages successfully.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:47:16AM -0500, Phil wrote:
> > >>> > Setting LC_ALL=C does not work either. Wonder why it works for
> v1.7
> > >>> but
> > >>> > not for v1.6. Again, I'm getting "svn: Compression of svndiff data
> > >>> failed"
> > >>> > when executing "svn co svn://path/to/repo/prj working_directory".
> But
> > >>> if I
> > >>> > do a "svn co file:///...." then it's okay for v1.6.
> > >>>
> > >>> The error is coming from zlib when compressing data.
> > >>> Maybe svnserve is failing to compress data for transmission to the
> > >>> client via the svn:// protocol.
> > >>>
> > >>> If you use file:// the only possible interaction with zlib during a
> > >>> checkout is decompressing data. Though it might not even be trying to
> > >>> decompress anything at all depending on the content of the respitory
> > >>> you are checking out from.
> > >>>
> > >>> I would suspect that your Subversion 1.6 install has a problem with
> the
> > >>> zlib it is using.
> > >>>
> > >>> Has checkout ever worked with 1.6 and suddenly stopped working?
> > >>> Was zlib updated or recompiled without also recompiling its
> dependencies?
> > >>> Or are you trying to get a fresh Subversion install working?
> > >>>
> > >>> That's all I can tell you given the information you provided.
> > >>> Not sure what the problem really is, though.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
>
Received on 2011-12-22 02:01:43 CET

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