Re: Problems with gnulib-hg repo

[Stefan Husmann]

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Am 24.09.2014 um 16:13 schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 22:02 +0200, Stefan Husmann wrote:
> 
>> I have problems with checking out the gnulib hg repo and, not
>> familiar with mercurial, am not able to fix them.
>>
>>  ==> Making package: octave-hg 19098.4591a1238ee0-1 (Tue Sep 23 21:58:39 
>> CEST 2014)
>> ==> Checking runtime dependencies...
>> ==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
>> ==> Retrieving sources...
>>   -> Updating gnulib git repo...
>> Fetching origin
> 
> What is this? This doesn't look like anything I've ever done with Octave.
> 
This comes from my PKGBUILD, i.e. a recipe for building Arch Linux packages, 
that I maintain in AUR (Arch User Repository).
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-hg

>> updating to bookmark @
>> cloning subrepo gnulib-hg from /home/haawda/sources/octave/gnulib-hg
>> abort: unknown revision '8728cf80b7d84b0ac401debac5b37217aac0d2e2'!
> 
> So Octave is trying to clone the gnulib repository from a local clone
> instead of from Savannah. This local clone is missing the following
> revision from Savannah:
> 
>     http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/gnulib-hg/rev/8728cf80b7d8
> 
> I assume you've done `hg pull` on /home/haawda/sources/octave/.
That probably is true, but I use the script makepkg, which is Arch Linux 
packager's tool. I think this should be fixed there.

> However, this by itself does *not* automatically also pull the
> subrepo, so your local clone's subrepo is out of date. In order to
> update the subrepo, you also have to do `hg update` on the superrepo
> or go into the subrepo and manually pull do `hg pull` on it.

> Once your local superrepo and subrepo are up to date, you can clone
> them locally.
> 

For me cloning the original savannah octave repo fixed my issue. 

Best Regards

> ... and it is problems like this one and others that make me think
> this whole subrepo idea was bad and we should convert our repository
> to not use a subrepo at all.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
> 
> 

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