[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#498625: Bug#498625: bzr: Branching fails with "pack already exists", then succeeds

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Tue Sep 16 09:48:13 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:28 +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> James Westby, 2008-09-11 17:56:49 +0100 :
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:47 +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> >>   For some reason, the first time I try to clone the patched/foo
> >> branch, I get a failure with the above message.  Doing the very same
> >> command again works, as does branching immediately afterwards under
> >> another name (before the rm -r).  I can live with the workaround, but
> >> that sounds fishy, and Jelmer suggests I report the bug.
> >
> > Hi Roland,
> >
> > Is is always the same branch that causes this?
> 
>   It is.
> 
> > Does the pack it mentions exist in .bzr/repository/packs after the
> > error? Does it still exist after succeeding? When it does succeed
> > does it add a pack of different name? (ls -l .bzr/repository/packs
> > before during and after would answer all of this).
> >
> > Also, could you please also grab the failure when run as
> > "bzr -Derror branch..." please? (Alternatively grab a stanza
> > showing the problem from your ~/.bzr.log)
> 
>   Results from an sh -x on my script, with the missing information:

Thanks for the information, I'll forward this upstream now.

It looks like it's doing an autopack operation where one of the packs
does not change, or, less likely, an identical pack is being created.

Thanks,

James






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