[pacman-dev] [PATCH] More verbose bzr branching error

[Allan McRae]

On 05/04/13 18:33, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
> From: Alucryd <alucryd at gmail.com>
> 
> Currently, you can pull bzr repos using different URLs like "lp:"
> "http://" or "https://" in the source array. This works well the first
> time, but when you want to build the package again and update the local
> repo, makepkg will run 'bzr config parent_location' to check if the
> local repo is the same as the distant one. Except the reported URL is
> generally not the one used in the source array (which is valid
> nonetheless) and will fail with a non helpful error message. This patch
> makes makepkg print the correct reported URL so that it can be manually
> changed in the source array. I, and Gary van der Merwe who wrote the bzr
> support, realize this may not be the best approach as it prevents people
> from using the convenient "lp:" URLs, but for the time being people will
> stop wondering why their valid URLs are rejected.
> 

So there is seriosuly no way to get to the original URL used by bzr?
That just seems...  crap!  This seems fine then.

> Signed-off-by: Maxime Gauduin <alucryd at gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> index da620a4..83900c5 100644
> --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> @@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ download_bzr() {
>  		# Make sure we are fetching the right repo
>  		if [[ "$url" != "$(bzr config parent_location -d $dir)"  ]] ; then
>  			error "$(gettext "%s is not a branch of %s")" "$dir" "$url"
> +			error "$(gettext "The reported URL is %s")" "$(bzr config parent_location -d $dir)"
>  			plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")"
>  			exit 1
>  		fi
>