Hi Jan! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jan Hauke Rahm a scris: >> tags 491855 +confirmed >> tags 491855 +wontfix >> thanks >> >> Hi Ondrej, >> >> I was able to kind of reproduce this bug with the package from testing. >> Unfortunately this is probably a wontfix. It seems to me that the list >> of files (which is in this case about 20k lines) to inject is passed to >> various commands which all could fail. This is not to be solved in a >> short way, I'm afraid, unless we're doing a major rewrite of a lot of >> code. > > Indeed that analysis is correct. svn-bp is limited by the fact that is > uses external tools and passes that through the shell, so it is really > hard not ot hit a shell limit for packages which contain many files. > >> PS: Comments from co-maintainers welcome! > > When the time is ripe and svn-bp will use SVN::Client while avoiding the > shell this issue might be gone by itself.
I agree with your analysis -- only please CC me together with the bugs, I haven't noticed that you have commented on that bug report, until today. The atlas packaging should be fixed, but at that time I thought that svn could help us a bit. We solve the problem by some other means. Ondrej
