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 <cwst...@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 <s...@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. >> > >
