Friday, July 11, 2008

Problem with CollabNet SVN 1.5

When I upgraded I started getting messages like this:

Failed to load module for FS type 'bdb'

Apparently bdb module is not working (or maybe they forgot to include it?) in the CollabNet distribution. I had to use the old binaries to migrate the repositories from bdb to fsfs like this:

svnadmin create NEW_REPOSITORY
svnadmin dump OLD_REPOSITORY | svnadmin load NEW_REPOSITORY

where NEW_REPOSITORY is the file path to the new fsfs repository and OLD_REPOSITORY is the file path to the old bdb repository.

1 comment:

Mark Phippard said...

We have never included support for BDB, intentionally. This used to be more prominently mentioned in the download but has become something we just took for granted. Since our binaries were out so far ahead of the others we picked up a lot of new users that did not know this. We'll try to get the information updated to make this more clear in the future.