Re: bazaar: "unable to obtain lock"

[Óscar Fuentes]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> A tarball with a lightweight checkout would require 31 MB. The bad news
>> is that if your connection is so slow that a 300 MB download is
>> unacceptable, you will have problems with the network inefficiency of
>> bzr over http/sftp. A simple update after a few days can easily require
>> to transfer 10 MB. A commit can be very expensive too at times. A
>> lightweight checkout needs to contact upstream for almost everything.
>
>
> Can someone please explain what is going on?

The remote client needs to read and write data on the server for doing
its stuff. Too often it needs to read a lot of data.

> Shouldn't this be fixed, or?

There is a fix: the Bazaar smart server, so the server receives bazaar
commands, executed them and returns the result to the client. For some
reason it is not being used.

-- 
Óscar