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

[Nathaniel Smith]

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.

> I hadn't thought of this before, but it might be useful to store DB's
> in arch-dependent directories or perhaps name them accordingly.

Probably even more useful to fix whatever bug is causing this to be
necessary :-).

-- Nathaniel

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