Re: [Gnu-arch-users] large archive problem

[John A Meinel]

Chris Teague wrote:
> I'm suffering from the same symptoms as the "bug #7708 overview:
> import of large (37K files) tree fails with 'broken pipe' error" guy. 
> I'm trying to check out Wombat from the Nicta repository
> (http://disy.cse.unsw.edu.au/Software/Wombat) which is a custom
> version of the linux kernel.  It is obviously very large, and I get a
> broken pipe trying to check out the code.  I am able to check out the
> last cached version (wombat--mainline--0.1--patch-42) but it gets a
> broken pipe when trying to patch this up to version 43.  The version
> I'm trying to check out is wombat--mainline--2.6.9--patch-25.  What I
> want to do to avoid this broken pipe issue is to tla get
> wombat--mainline--0.1--patch-42 and then once that is done, patch it
> up to the wombat--mainline--2.6.9--patch-25 version.  How do I do
> this?  I've tried using delta to create a diff between these two, but
> it attempts to check out the latest one which again causes a broken
> pipe.  Below is a piece of abrowse --desc which shows the relationship
> from the mainline--0.1 version to the mainline--2.6.9 version.
>
> wombat--mainline--2.6.5
>         base-0   (tag revision of
> address@hidden/wombat--mainline--0.1--patch-47)
>
>   wombat--mainline--2.6.6
>         base-0   (tag revision of
> address@hidden/wombat--mainline--2.6.5--patch-9)
>
>  wombat--mainline--2.6.7
>         base-0   (tag revision of
> address@hidden/wombat--mainline--2.6.6--patch-2)
>
>  wombat--mainline--2.6.8.1
>         base-0   (tag revision of
> address@hidden/wombat--mainline--2.6.7--patch-2)
>
>  wombat--mainline--2.6.9
>         base-0   (tag revision of
> address@hidden/wombat--mainline--2.6.8.1--patch-1)
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I don't know if this will help you, but you can try:

tla get wombat--mainline--0.1--patch-42 wombat
tla get-changeset wombat--mainline--0.1--patch-43 ,patch-43
cd wombat
tla apply-changeset ../,patch-43

That's at least another route to try.

I'm trying it right now, but I have to agree, that's a big tree. 
(checked out revision 42 is 291M, tarred it is 210M so some of that is 
lost space from all the arch ids, tar.gz is 45M)

Though I have to say, when I just tried it, I got a different error. 
Actually what I got was:


$ tla apply-changeset ../,patch-43/
Error encountered accessing directory (Bad address)
Path: (null)
A 
{arch}/wombat/wombat--mainline/wombat--mainline--0.1/address@hidden/patch-log/patch-43
M   include/asm-l4/i386/arch.h

Which sounds like there is a problem with patch-43. I don't have the 
time right now to really delve into this more, but it might be a 
starting point. (By the way, wombat is up to patch-52, are there no 
other cacherevs?)

John
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