Re: [Arx-users] Error trying to pull ArX 2.0

[Walter Landry]

Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have been studying distributed version control systems for almost a 
> year, but am just now experimenting with ArX. The improvements described 
> in the 2.0 version looked good enough to pull me in.
> 
> I'm using gentoo x86. I downloaded ArX 1.0.20, and built it. My goal is 
> really to bypass 1.0.20 and start learning 2.0, so I immediately tried 
> to grab the 2.0 sources. I successfully registered what I think is the 
> correct archive:
> 
> $ arx archives
> address@hidden
>          http://superbeast.ucsd.edu/~landry/ArX/{archive}
> 
> But when I give the "get" command, I get oodles of errors. It does 
> create some patch directories in the current directory where I gave the 
> command:
> 
> $ arx get address@hidden/dists--arx--1.0 arx
> ...
> (missed much output similar to below)
> ...
> PROPFIND:1965: parser warning : xmlns:i0: 'DAV:' is not a valid URI
> sponse xmlns:lp0="DAV:" xmlns:lp1="http://apache.org/dav/props/"; 
> xmlns:i0="DAV:" 
>                        ^PROPFIND:1983: parser warning : xmlns:lp0: 
> 'DAV:' is not a valid URI
> <D:response xmlns:lp0="DAV:" xmlns:lp1="http://apache.org/dav/props/"; 
> xmlns:i0="
> 
> 
> (Ctrl-C after waiting several minutes, with periodic output as above)

Unfortunately, this is entirely normal.  There is a problem with the
interaction between WebDAV and gnome-vfs.  If you're really interested
in it, you can read

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2004-February/msg00004.html

ArX is just taking a long time.  If you pipe the stderr to /dev/null
(e.g. 2> /dev/null) and use the --report option, you should see visible
signs of progress.

I should put this in a FAQ somewhere, or on the front page.

Cheers,
Walter