very odd behaviour from svnlite on RPi2

[Andreas Schwarz]

On 04.09.15, Tim Kientzle wrote:

>> I've not seen these errors on the other freebsd boxes in the logs (same 
>> connection) which is why I thought it might be a bottleneck with the pi.
>
> In some cases, I've repeated the 'svn cleanup' + 'svn up' cycle for 2-3 days before it finally completed 
> only to see missing files that svn doesn't seem to be aware of at all.  I've found that partial tree 
> checkouts are more likely to succeed; you can sometimes work around this by asking SVN to checkout/update 
> individual subdirectories.

Just some additional informations. I found out the main reason for my svn(lite) 
problems.

root at pizelot:/usr/src # svnlite update
Updating '.':
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head'
svn: E000060: Error running context: Operation timed out


root at pizelot:/usr/src # host svn.freebsd.org
svn.freebsd.org is an alias for svnmir.geo.freebsd.org.
svnmir.geo.freebsd.org has address 213.138.116.72
svnmir.geo.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:41c8:112:8300::e6a:0
svnmir.geo.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 .

root at pizelot:/usr/src # ping6 svn.freebsd.org
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a01:c08:0:5::3 --> 2001:41c8:112:8300::e6a:0
^C
--- svnmir.geo.freebsd.org ping6 statistics ---
24 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss


IPv6 connection is prefered before IPv4 (there is no failover 
to v4). When deconfiguring v6, svn update works like expected.

I've not found an option to tell svn to prefer the ipv4 address
(it's only possible to manipulate the svn server URL or change 
the systemwide address selection).


-asc