Re: Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

[Alexey Lyubimov <alexeipobox at yahoo dot com>]

Hello Max!
Thank you for the "/cygdrive/c" advice. It works for
SVN import, but it doesn't work for SVN co :(
I've post the question about the local repositories
under Win98 to Subversion forum and got the following
answer from Ben Collins-Sussman:

"The problem is that the svn_repos_open() call tries
to take out a shared lock on a particular file, and
win98 doesn't support shared locks. It turns out that
this feature is only necessary for BDB repositories
(so that 'svnadmin recover' can grab an exclusive lock
on the same file). What we need to do is change that
function to *not* attempt to grab shared locks if the
repository is FSFS. I don't think anyone has gotten
around to it yet. :-/"

Will you provide a patch for Win98 users? Friends of
mine and me have several Win98 boxes and we are ready
to test the patch! Reading the SVN forum I know that
we are not alone :) 

----
Best regards,
Alexey

--- Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net> wrote:

> Alexey Lyubimov wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I'm running Cygwin on Win98SE and the problem is
> that
> > I can not even import any project to the
> successfully
> > created local SVN-repository:
> > 
> > $ svnadmin create c:/svnroot/
> > 
> > $ svnadmin verify c:/svnroot/
> > * Verified revision 0.
> > 
> > $ svn import c:/foo/ file:///c:/svnroot/
> > svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> > svn: Unable to open repository
> 'file:///c:/svnroot'
> 
> Use /cygdrive/c/ not c:/ in file:/// URLs.
> 
> > Is there any solution? I know, that I can not keep
> > local repository under "plain" Win98. Does Cygwin
> port
> > of the Subversion 1.2.x have the same restriction?
> 
> No idea, I don't have any Win9x boxes to test on.
> 
> Max.
> 
> 



		
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