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

[Allan McRae]

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