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

[Ethan Blanton]

Nathaniel Smith spake unto us the following wisdom:
> 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.

This is correct.  I cannot take x86 monotone databases to PPC.  I
mentioned this some months ago in #monotone and got the same reaction
you just gave.  ;-)

Ethan

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