Re: SVN Mirroring problems

[Skillen <su...@wandisco.com>]

hi, i have seen avaya use wandisco to do this with india and it looks like it
worked pretty well. good luck

ohaleck wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> I need to set up a mirror of SVN repository. There are several 
> developers in our office in Poland while the main division is in USA 
> (and they don't really understand that our connection is very poor 
> quality) so we decided to mirror the remote SVN located on the US 
> server, which we normally accessed via svn+ssh://.
> The simplest solution seems to be SVN::Mirror. I have set it up (version 
> 0.67 downloaded from CPAN) and run it the following way:
> 
> $ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /repository
> $ export SVMREPOS=/repository
> $ svm init mirror svn+ssh://user@remote.svn.host/remote_repository 
> (public key authentication)
> $ svm sync mirror
> 
> Here is where the first problem appears. When something breaks the 
> connection (and as I said the link is very poor quality) and I try to 
> resume it svm keeps displaying:
> Waiting for sync lock on /mirror: host:1629.
> How can I disable the lock? Deleting anything in repository/locks 
> results in breaking the repository down and I cannot do anything with it 
> anyway.
> 
> If everything runs fine I have a repository mirror at 
> file://$SVMREPOS/mirror. I create a local branch:
> $ svn cp file://$SVMREPOS/mirror file://$SVMREPOS/svn-local
> Then I can check out and do some changes to the code. Then I commit it 
> and get the following message:
> Sending (files)
> Transmitting file data .
> Committed revision 8.
> 
> Now there is another problem. The svm POD says I should perform a svm 
> mergeback command. What are the parameters though? I figured out that 
> first parameter should be the path (here: 'mirror'), second should be 
> 'svn-local', but how about the required third one? A revision? Revision 
> of what? I tried different values but each of them gets me an error 
> message (different types though):
> 
> $ svm mergeback mirror svn-local 7
> Invalid filesystem path syntax: Invalid editor anchoring; at least one 
> of the input paths is not a directory and there was no source entry at 
> /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 413
> 
> $ svm mergeback mirror svn-local 8
> committed via RA at /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 409.
> 
> $ svm mergeback mirror svn-local 8             (one more time)
> A checksum mismatch occurred: Base checksum mismatch on 
> 'src/scripts/ELFA/ELFA.pl':
>    expected:  06499a874fc782217f1370edcd4d1ea4
>      actual:  647035bd17fe330d4c474961525dfde9
>  at /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 413
>         
> SVN::Delta::Editor::AUTOLOAD('SVN::Delta::Editor=HASH(0x85a2db8)', 
> '_p_void=SCALAR(0x85a2fd4)', '06499a874        fc782217f1370edcd4d1ea4', 
> '_p_apr_pool_t=SCALAR(0x85a2ea8)') called at 
> /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 413
>         SVN::Mirror::mergeback('SVN::Mirror::Ra=HASH(0x855afac)', 7, 
> 'svn-local', 8) called at /usr/bin/svm line 1        15
>         main::mergeback('mirror', 'svn-local', 8) called at /usr/bin/svm 
> line 124
> 
> After all this the actual revision on local (mirror) repository is 8 and 
> on remote repository is 6 so nothing was merged back.
> 
> I would appreciate any help as this mirroring drives me nuts and all of 
> us here really need the mirror to work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maciek Ochalek
> 
> 
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