Package: myrepos
Version: 1.20141024.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I would like to use multiple mrconfig files, so I created ~/.mrconfig-alt.
I created it as a symbolic link, like all my manually-curated dotfiles.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
In a clone of https://github.com/joeyh/myrepos/:
% mr -c ~/.mrconfig-alt register
* What was the outcome of this action?
% mr -c ~/.mrconfig-alt register
mr register: unknown repository type
zsh: exit 255
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected registration to succeed. It succeeds if I delete the symbolic
link and re-create it as a normal file.
* Additional information:
One workaround would be to replace the symbolic link by a hard link.
Simply passing the realpath of the symbolic link as the argument to the -c
option changes the meaning of the command in a manner that causes mr to fail
to find repositories,¹ so it's not a drop-in workaround.
The absolute path of the _target_ of the symlink is in ~/.mrtrust, and without
it there mr complains (as expected). Having the absolute path of the symlink
itself in ~/.mrtrust makes no difference.
Possibly related: 'mr -c ~/.mrconfig-alt list' displays repositories listed in
either ~/.mrconfig or ~/.mrconfig-alt, instead of only repositories listed in
the latter. This might be a separate problem.
Please let me know if I could provide additional information.
Thanks,
Daniel
¹ Changing '-c foobar' to '-c "$(realpath foobar)"' causes mr to interpret
relative paths in the ini section headers as relative to
`dirname(realpath(symlink))' rather than as relative to `dirname(symlink)'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
myrepos depends on no packages.
Versions of packages myrepos recommends:
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-2
ii libio-pty-easy-perl 0.09-1
ii libwww-perl 6.04-1
ii perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u2
Versions of packages myrepos suggests:
pn ack-grep <none>
pn bzr <none>
ii curl 7.26.0-1+wheezy12
pn cvs <none>
pn darcs <none>
pn fossil <none>
ii git [git-core] 1:1.9.1-1~bpo70+2
pn kdesdk-scripts <none>
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii mercurial 2.2.2-3
ii subversion 1.8.10-1~bpo70+1
pn subversion-tools <none>
pn vcsh <none>
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