Bug#618875: perl-modules: "Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (...)"

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 07:19:13PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Today, I ran into the same error while trying to git svn rebase the
> virtualbox repository using git and Perl from Debian Squeeze aka
> stable, architecture is i386:
> 
> $ cat .git/config
> [core]
>         repositoryformatversion = 0
>         filemode = true
>         bare = false
>         logallrefupdates = true
> [svn-remote "svn"]
>         url = http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk
>         fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn
> $ git svn rebase
> (...)
> r32849 = d5955dbaf733f61f95792561159139ed835f46b4 (refs/remotes/git-svn)
>     M   src/VBox/Main/ApplianceImplExport.cpp
> r32850 = 9a637783593012121fecc343bf302fb0cc593e1a (refs/remotes/git-svn)
>     M   src/VBox/Main/include/ConsoleImpl.h
>     M   src/VBox/Main/GuestImpl.cpp
>     M   src/VBox/Main/DisplayImpl.cpp
>     M   src/VBox/Main/ConsoleImpl2.cpp
>     M   src/VBox/Main/MouseImpl.cpp
>     M   src/VBox/Main/VMMDevInterface.cpp
>     M   src/VBox/Main/ConsoleImpl.cpp
>     M   src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxBFE/ConsoleImpl.h
>     M   src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxBFE/SDLConsole.h
>     M   src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxBFE/VMMDevInterface.cpp
> Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into ../../lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, at /usr/share/perl/5.10.1/Memoize/Storable.pm line 21
> 
> Could not unmemoize function `lookup_svn_merge', because it was not memoized to begin with at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 3178
> END failed--call queue aborted at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 39.
> 
> 
> Workaround: Use git-1.6.5.7/git-svn.perl (still checking out but it
> got around the commit above).
> 
> The pre-state of my local tree is still in my backups, drop me a line
> within the next week if you're interested, compressed size is 
> 178Mbyte *yuck*

I can't promise to do anything with it in the near future, but happy
to grab a copy of it from somewhere if you can easily make it
available, to work on at a later date. Feel free to drop me a line
in private if you prefer.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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