Error with Bazaar through FTP: Unrecognised container format

[Martin Pool]

On 8 February 2012 06:56, Fbe546 <fbe546 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe someone familiar with the source code of Bazaar could answer
> this question before I begin to dig into it:
>
> How hard would it be to replace the use of APPE with a GET and a PUT ?
>
> It would surely be less efficient, but at least it would work...

There is already support for doing this in transport/ftp/__init__.py,
the has_append attribute.  If the server doesn't support APPE at all
we fall back to this.  Apparently we have not yet encountered a server
that has an append but where it doesn't work properly.  You could
fairly easily check the location config stack for a new variable
ftp.disable_append and then turn that on.  It would be at least worth
trying.

If it's true, as it seems, that the problem is the server is not
read-after-write coherent with itself on a single file, I don't know
why PUT would be any more coherent than APPE....

-- 
Martin