It is certainly the case that Galaxy should be using the latest version of mercurial given a number of high profile bugs with older versions. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to just drop the new version it - there are some API changes that prevent Galaxy from loading when doing this and the number of people who can add new eggs to Galaxy is low.
I have created a Trello card to track this issue: https://trello.com/c/9A9uIav0 Let us know if you happen to find a workaround for this issue. -John On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Ryan G <ngsbioinformat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been trying to track down why I can't get anything from the toolshed > installed and finally have it figured out. > > Whenever I tried to install anything I always got an Error with no > explanation of what the error was. After enabling Debug messages into the > log file, I see the error is: > > tool_shed.util.hg_util DEBUG 2014-12-22 14:47:48,910 Error cloning > repository: httpsconnection instance has no attribute '_set_hostport' > > I googled around and found out this is a known bug/issue with older version > of Mercurial and was fixed in v3. > > I added a line to hg_util.py to see where it picks up hg. Its using version > 2.2.3. Indeed, one of the eggs downloaded by Galaxy is mercurial-2.2.3. > > I have the newest version of mercurial installed in my site-packages folder > but I guess that's not what galaxy wants. So my question is, how do I get > Galaxy to use the latest version of Mercurial? And, Why did it download an > older version? > > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > https://lists.galaxyproject.org/ > > To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: > http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/ ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: https://lists.galaxyproject.org/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
