I am trying to perform a migration from cvs to svn on my our new XServe server which is running OS X Server. There is a known conflict between the cvs2svn and dbm libraries that come pre-installed with OS X. The error is:
ERROR: cvs2svn uses the anydbm package, which depends on lower level dbm libraries. Your system has dbm, with which cvs2svn is known to have problems. To use cvs2svn, you must install a Python dbm library other than dumbdbm or dbm. See http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-anydbm.html for more information.
I followed all the prescribed steps in the cvs2svn FAQ but the error still persists. Does anyone know of an alternative way to accomplish this task, or another website that offer a different solution to this seemingly common problem?
Since CVS and Subversion repositories are really just collections of files, one way to work around this problem might be to copy your CVS repository to a machine where cvs2svn can run successfully, run it to convert to Subversion, and then copy the new repository back to your server. The added benefit of this method is that you won’t run the risk of accidentally messing up your server configuration while doing this conversion step.