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

[Andrew Gregory]

On 04/07/13 at 11:51am, Maxime GAUDUIN wrote:
> 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
> 

It may not be perfect, but bzr info can operate on a remote repo, so
could you run `bzr info` on the source url and compare the returned
branch root to parent_location?

apg