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

[Maxime GAUDUIN]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 06/04/13 16:13, Allan McRae wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Can bzr people also take a look at this:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34650
>
> Allan
>
>
>
This is the issue I described above. I haven't found any way to determine
the URL used for pulling the distant repo yet, besides making makepkg store
it in a file to be read upon update. For now I have explained how to get
the correct URL on his bug report, I'll add a paragraph on this in the VCS
guidelines wiki article later today.

-- 
Maxime