Yes, that did fix it.
dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ rm -rf .julia
dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.init()'
INFO: Initializing package repository /home/dev/.julia/v0.2
INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.add("BinDeps")'
INFO: Cloning cache of BinDeps from
git://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of SHA from git://github.com/staticfloat/SHA.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of URIParser from git://github.com/Keno/URIParser.jl.git
INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.3.2
INFO: Installing SHA v0.0.2
INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.2
INFO: REQUIRE updated.
dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.checkout("BinDeps")'
INFO: Checking out BinDeps master...
INFO: Pulling BinDeps latest master...
INFO: No packages to install, update or remove.
dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.add("ICU")'
INFO: Cloning cache of ICU from git://github.com/nolta/ICU.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of UTF16 from git://github.com/nolta/UTF16.jl.git
INFO: Installing ICU v0.0.4
INFO: Installing UTF16 v0.2.0
INFO: Building ICU
INFO: REQUIRE updated.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:43:26 PM UTC-3, Keno Fischer wrote:
>
> Before anything else, try `Pkg.checkout("BinDeps")` and see if that fixes
> it.
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Ken Crowell <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > (Posted earlier in IRC, but I'm told this is considerably more active.)
> >
> > So in the recent past (a few weeks ago), on 0.2 on Ubuntu trusty, I
> could
> > pre-install the binary dependencies of ICU, HttpParser, Nettle, ZMQ,
> etc.
> > and the Julia package install would proceed smoothly without trying to
> > download the deps I already had. Now when I try to add the same
> packages,
> > an attempt is made to download and build those dependencies, even though
> I
> > already have them. This is a major pain, especially when trying to use
> > these packages in a minimal environment (no build tools, for example).
> Any
> > ideas what changed, and if this behaviour is intentional. I see a lot
> of
> > activity in the BinDeps repo, but I can't interpret what might be the
> > relevant change. If I roll back METADATA.jl a couple of weeks (to
> 6058d11),
> > things "work" (no attempts to build and install already-present binary
> deps.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Old:
> >
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ rm -rf .julia
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.init()'
> > INFO: Initializing package repository /home/dev/.julia/v0.2
> > INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ cd /home/dev/.julia/v0.2/METADATA/
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~/.julia/v0.2/METADATA$ git reset --hard 6058d11
> > HEAD is now at 6058d11 Merge branch 'metadata-v2' of
> > git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl into metadata-v2
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~/.julia/v0.2/METADATA$ cd
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ sudo apt-get -q install -y libicu52
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > libicu52 is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.add("ICU")'
> > INFO: Cloning cache of BinDeps from
> > git://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl.git
> > INFO: Cloning cache of ICU from git://github.com/nolta/ICU.jl.git
> > INFO: Cloning cache of URIParser from git://
> github.com/Keno/URIParser.jl.git
> > INFO: Cloning cache of UTF16 from git://github.com/nolta/UTF16.jl.git
> > INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.2.14
> > INFO: Installing ICU v0.0.4
> > INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.2
> > INFO: Installing UTF16 v0.2.0
> > INFO: Building ICU
> > INFO: REQUIRE updated.
> >
> >
> > New:
> >
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ rm -rf .julia
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.init()'
> > INFO: Initializing package repository /home/dev/.julia/v0.2
> > INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ sudo apt-get -q install -y libicu52
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > libicu52 is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > dev@3e9693d449ff:~$ julia -e 'Pkg.add("ICU")'
> > INFO: Cloning cache of BinDeps from
> > git://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl.git
> > INFO: Cloning cache of ICU from git://github.com/nolta/ICU.jl.git
> > INFO: Cloning cache of SHA from git://github.com/staticfloat/SHA.jl.git
> > INFO: Cloning cache of URIParser from git://
> github.com/Keno/URIParser.jl.git
> > INFO: Cloning cache of UTF16 from git://github.com/nolta/UTF16.jl.git
> > INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.3.2
> > INFO: Installing ICU v0.0.4
> > INFO: Installing SHA v0.0.2
> > INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.2
> > INFO: Installing UTF16 v0.2.0
> > INFO: Building ICU
> > =================================[ ERROR: ICU
> > ]=================================
> >
> > None of the selected providers can install dependency icu.
> > Use BinDeps.debug(package_name) to see available providers
> >
> > at /home/dev/.julia/v0.2/ICU/deps/build.jl:28
> >
> >
> ================================================================================
>
>
> >
> > ================================[ BUILD ERRORS
> > ]================================
> >
> > WARNING: ICU had build errors.
> >
> > - packages with build errors remain installed in /home/dev/.julia/v0.2
> > - build a package and all its dependencies with `Pkg.build(pkg)`
> > - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script
> >
> >
> ================================================================================
>
>
> > INFO: REQUIRE updated.
> >
> >
> >
>
