[SVN-1488] cvs2svn not picky enough about choice of dbm

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: cvs2svn-1.0
• Component/s: tools

Environment

Solaris

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 21/Aug/03 22:16
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:38
• Resolved: 15/Sep/04 08:43

Description

When trying to convert a minimal CVS repository using the command

  cvs2svn.py --dump-only ~/Foorepos

it bails out with a dbm error.  Entire output follows:

--8<--

----- pass 1 -----
/pike/home/marcus/Foorepos/fsort.c,v
RESYNC: fsort.c,v (1.1) : old time="Sun Sep 22 21:40:01 1996" new time="Sun Sep 22 21:40:00 1996"
----- pass 2 -----
RESYNC: fsort.c,v (1.1) : old time="Sun Sep 22 21:40:00 1996" new time="Sun Sep 22 21:40:00 1996"
----- pass 3 -----
----- pass 4 -----
committing: Sun Sep 22 21:40:00 1996, over 0 seconds
    adding or changing 1.1 : trunk/fsort.c
    new revision: 1
committing: Sun Sep 22 21:40:01 1996, over 0 seconds
    new revision: 2
committing: Sun Sep 29 02:17:35 1996, over 0 seconds
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./cvs2svn.py", line 2261, in ?
    main()
  File "./cvs2svn.py", line 2257, in main
    convert(ctx, start_pass=start_pass)
  File "./cvs2svn.py", line 2136, in convert
    _passes[i](ctx)
  File "./cvs2svn.py", line 2071, in pass4
    c.commit(dumper, ctx, sym_tracker)
  File "./cvs2svn.py", line 1819, in commit
    sym_tracker.enroot_tags(svn_path, svn_rev, tags)
  File "./cvs2svn.py", line 1368, in enroot_tags
    self.enroot_names(svn_path, svn_rev, tags, self.tags_opening_revs_key)
  File "./cvs2svn.py", line 1354, in enroot_names
    self.db[parent_key] = marshal.dumps(parent)
dbm.error: cannot add item to database

--8<--

My Python version is

  Python 2.2 (#1, Jan 21 2002, 18:43:00)
  [GCC 3.0.3] on sunos5

The co binary is from RCS 5.7.  All Subversion files are current to revision 6820.


  // Marcus

Original issue reported by marcus_c