Hi Donovan,
yeah, sorry to bark at you.  It's just been highly frustrating that
nobody has documented this issue, but then I realize that instead of
just looking for recipes online, writing my own tasks could be
quicker.

I was using :remote_cache, but got these problems there as well,
but :clear_release_path could do the trick in the end.  I'll give it a
try.

To bring it back to my general question - is there no way to 'force'
things to get done?  I suppose that would be at a bash command level,
like the rm -rf command will force things.  What about ln -rf  ?  does
that work?

Thanks for your help!


On Dec 13, 9:07 pm, Donovan Bray <[email protected]> wrote:
> You were asking for help for some bizarre behavior, and you were skipping a
> step, I'm not a mind reader I could only infer as much as you wrote. It
> seemed to me natural to verify you had followed a normal progression to get
> where you got yourself.
>
> Without looking at your code we can't predict all of the custom before and
> after callbacks that may change by calling update_code directly ie: possibly
> missing any callbacks you yourself have done for deploy. I was simply making
> sure you were correctly using capistrano. Jumping directly to update_code is
> abnormal.
>
> I don't use the :copy strategy, I have a feeling that might be where the
> problem most likely lies.
>
> I use the :remote_cache strategy for all of my deployments, but I still run
> into what you describe because I overwrite how Capistrano generates the
> release path, so I use this task to make sure the directory doesn't exist
> when I do a full deploy.
>
> before "deploy:update_code",  "deploy:clear_release_path"
>
> namespace :deploy do
>     desc "Clear the release_path for a new checkout"
>     task :clear_release_path, :roles=>[:app] do
>       run "rm -rf #{release_path}"
>     end
> end
>
> Try the above, or try a different strategy.
>
> Consider posting your deploy.rb as a gist, or other snippit posting service.
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:34 AM, horseshoe7 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > obviously.  but deploy:update_code is a sub-task of deploy, so if it
> > doesn't work, neither will deploy
>
> > I don't mean to be rude, but it's pretty much safe to assume that all
> > users of capistrano would have tried deploy:setup and then deploy, so
> > perhaps you're trying to help, but I wouldn't have spent hours trying
> > to figure this out if that were the solution.  it's in every
> > introductory document.

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