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We have got problems with updating attached binary files. The error message is:


Topic save error

During save of file TestTopic1 an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator.

/opt/Summertime_98.sparc/bin/ci -q -l -m'none' -t-none -w'DanielKnobloch' /var/httpd/wiki/htdocs/pub/Test/TestTopic1/Umsatz.xls 2>&1 1>/dev/null
Binary files /tmp/dOVaaAN and /tmp/T2pVa4zN differ
ci: /var/httpd/wiki/htdocs/pub/Test/TestTopic1/Umsatz.xls,v: diff failed
ci aborted


We have no problems with updating non-binary files.

An important issue is that the update of a UNIX-based binary file (.gz.tar) works fine.

Any ideas how we can solve this problem ? Thanks a lot.

Daniel

  • TWiki version: TWiki 01 Dec 2001
  • Web server: Apache
  • Server OS: Unix
  • Web browser: Internet Explorer
  • Client OS: Windows NT/2000/XP

-- DanielKnobloch - 02 Jul 2002

Answer

It would be useful to know the actual server OS - e.g. FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. Try uname -a from the shell.

What may be happening is that your diff can't handle some binary files (and the .tar.gz didn't have characters that upset it).

It would be worth checking the diff program being used by RCS - this is dependent on the actual PATH used by TWiki. The easiest way to check this is to download the latest testenv from CVSget:bin/testenv and run this - near the end it tells you the exact PATH used, so you can check the diff used. If this is Sun's diff, you should download and install GNU diff, which can probably be found at http://www.sunfreeware.com.

This can also happen with Windows servers where a CR/LF is being added to binary files, but that shouldn't be happening here - search Support for 'binary', there are quite a few questions in this area but none really apply to Unix IMO.

-- RichardDonkin - 02 Jul 2002

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