Figured it out, I believe I now have a proper pull request in place.
My guess is that until Pkg.publish() works for folks without write access to
METADATA (automatically creating a pull request), this is a bit cumbersome.
What I did (more maybe for my own benefit :-( in a few weeks):
1) Forked JuliaLang/METADATA.jl to goedman/METADATA.jl
2) Cloned goedman/METADATA.jl to my machine
3) Manually copied over my updated package info ( from
.julia/v0.3/METADATA/HyperDualNumbers to directory with the cloned
goedman/METADATA.jl )
4) Committed goedman/METADATA.jl to github
5) Created a pull request on base JuliaLang/METADATA.jl (from head
goedman/METADATA.
Rob J. Goedman
[email protected]
On Apr 21, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Robert J Goedman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In trying to update the registered package HyperDualNumbers (from v0.1.1 to
> v0.1.2, a few very minor changes to the README.md), I think I got myself in a
> pickle.
>
> I tried to follow the relevant doc section. I don't think I have write access
> to METADATA. Details on what I did are attached below.
>
> Maybe I should not have worked in the .julia/v0.3 directory? But if I were to
> clone HyperDualNumbers and/or METADATA.jl, how would Pkg.tag() find that?
> Once I get METADATA updated, to generate a pull request (initially Jiahao was
> so kind to add the initial version of the package for me), should I use the
> GitHub tool?
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Rob J. Goedman
> [email protected]
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I updated the HyperDualNumbers package in the ~/.julia/v0.3 directory and
> committed the changes to the git repository and ran
> Pkg.tag("HyperDualNumbers"):
>
> julia> Pkg.tag("HyperDualNumbers")
> INFO: Tagging HyperDualNumbers v0.1.2
> INFO: Committing METADATA for HyperDualNumbers
>
> robs-15inch-2:HyperDualNumbers rob$ cd ~/.julia/v0.3/HyperDualNumbers && git
> tag
> v0.1.0
> v0.1.2
> robs-15inch-2:HyperDualNumbers rob$ cd ~/.julia/v0.3/HyperDualNumbers && git
> show --stat
> commit d405891a0188a0a3e4cd59156775405b71e63aed
> Author: Rob J. Goedman <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon Apr 21 09:07:30 2014 -0700
>
> Update to tag v0.1.2
>
> README.md | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> I was surprised v0.1.1 was not listed. And METADATA does not seem to have
> been updated for HyperDualNumbers:
>
> robs-15inch-2:HyperDualNumbers rob$ cd ~/.julia/v0.3/METADATA && git show
> commit 9ece76e2246e1166aa2d0a0c59ab13e9f9dd747b
> Merge: 0daf52c cc00e5e
> Author: Robert J. Ennis <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon Apr 21 17:01:45 2014 +0200
>
> Merge pull request #779 from rennis250/metadata-v2
>
> Tag SDL v0.1.2
>
> julia> Pkg.available("HyperDualNumbers")
> 2-element Array{VersionNumber,1}:
> v"0.1.0"
> v"0.1.1"
>
> I tried Pkg.publish() anyway and expected to get a rejection because I don't
> have write permissions, but I think it did not even get to that point:
>
> julia> Pkg.update()
> INFO: Updating METADATA...
> INFO: INFO: INFO: INFO: INFO: INFO: Updating ApproxFun...INFO: Updating
> HyperDualNumbers...Updating NumericalMath...Updating RevMode...Updating
> Calculus2...Updating RmathDist...Updating PGM...
>
> INFO: Computing changes...
> INFO: No packages to install, update or remove
>
> julia> Pkg.publish()
> ERROR: METADATA is behind origin/metadata-v2 – run `Pkg.update()` before
> publishing
> in publish at pkg/entry.jl:308
> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
> in cd at file.jl:20
> in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28
> in publish at pkg.jl:57
>
>
