Re: [Monotone-devel] Syncing databases without using a network?

[Matt Johnston]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:19:10PM -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:34:32PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> > > Be careful with USB keys.  In my experience, you'll run in to integer
> > > size problems with the database format.  For example, I cannot access
> > > a monotone database (SQLite) on my amd64 Linux port that was created
> > > on a i386 Linux port.
> > 
> > Ugh, really?  Can anyone confirm this?  Sqlite is _supposed_ to have a
> > portable file format.  It's possible we're screwing something up in
> > our build system for it, but some quick looking doesn't reveal many
> > knobs we could mess up.
> 
> This is correct.  I cannot take x86 monotone databases to PPC.  I
> mentioned this some months ago in #monotone and got the same reaction
> you just gave.  ;-)

I've just tried copying some monotone 0.25 (sqlite3)
databases in each direction between OSX/PPC, Linux/x86, and
Linux/amd64, with no troubles. Any chance of putting some
troublesome databases somewhere public to have a look at?

Cheers,
Matt