RE: octave forge repo issues

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Till [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:28 PM
> To: John Donoghue
> Cc: Octave Maintainers List; Julien Bect
> Subject: Re: octave forge repo issues
> 
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:49:29PM -0400, John Donoghue wrote:
> > On 1/14/19 7:33 PM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > >
> > > I guess a FYI
> > >
> > > I had a ticket in to source forge for the arduino repo being broken
> > > yesterday and got a reply back of the following:
> > >
> > > From https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/18932/:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Files in the Octave arduino, control, statistics, video, and zeromq
> > > repos were damaged and are unrepairable. To get the repositories
> > > going again with all the correct files and metadata, we have moved
> > > the repos aside as a backup copy, and put a clean empty repo in their
place.
> > > Please run |hg push| in your local checkouts of each of those repos
> > > and it should push everything up and be all set. If you don't have
> > > checkouts of all those repos, other developers of the project will
> > > need to do the
> > > |hg push|. Let us know if we should reach out to help coordinate
> > > |that,
> > > or if you encounter any further issues.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > SourceForge Support
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been actively working on arduino and zeromq, and I believe I
> > > was the last push up on statistics, so will push those.
> > >
> > > Video, and control will have to be someone else.
> > >
> > Another FYI from sourceforge
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/19194/
> >
> > For the database pkg repo:
> >
> > "Looks like this repo suffered from a file corruption issue back in
> > early January but wasn't noticed then. I've restored an older backup
> > we have into its place, and verified it is good. If you or another
> > developer has more recent commits, please do an |hg push| in the local
> > |database| repo to push them up to the server"
> 
> I've restored the missing changesets.
> 
> > And:
> >
> > ... checked all the other octave repositories, running |hg verify| in
each.
> > The |secs| and |stk| repositories also had this issue. They didn't
> > have an
> 
> I can't help with these, my local repositories are not more current
(didn't keep
> them current since I quitted OF co-administration).
> 
> @ Julien: stk?
> 
> Olaf
> 
> > error when browsing them on the web, but the repository was not fully
> > complete. So I also set those aside and moved backups into their
> > place. The backups of those are also fairly old, so they also need |hg
> > push| to push up commits they are missing.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> --


I had a version of the sec repo on my computer so tried pushing that but it
said was no changes - which might be correct - its been unmaintained for a
log while