Package: mr Version: 1.12~bpo60+1 Severity: normal When mr is run in an environment where the home directory is a symlink, it fails to recognise any repositories that are configured, and thus will not respond to any commands, giving the error:
mr list: no repositories found to work on Home dir is as follows : lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 27 2011 sam -> /srv/d_garlic/home/sam ~ > pwd /home/sam ~ > perl -MCwd -e 'print Cwd::getcwd() . "\n"' /srv/d_garlic/home/sam mr config consists of repositories configured like this : [$HOME/.oh-my-zsh] checkout = git clone --recursive https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/oh-my-zsh.git .oh-my-zsh The issue appears to be that the 'selectrepos()' function in mr checks if the repos are subdirectories of the cwd on line 1058: next if $dir ne $d && $dir !~ /^\Q$d\E/; $d is set from $directory, which is set by Cwd::getcwd() In my particular configuration with a symlinked home, this gives repos that expand $HOME to give repos like: DB<2> x $dir 0 '/home/sam/.config/vcsh/repo.d/mr.git/' Compared to the cwd, which is like this: DB<3> x $d 0 '/srv/d_garlic/home/sam/' I realise I can fix this by changing the repo definitions to not use $HOME, or to make $HOME point at the target of the symlink, but the repo definitions are shared between many machines as I use this to sync dotfiles across multiple machines, so I'd rather stick with a generic $HOME I've 'fixed' this on my local machine by editing the code to use $ENV{PWD} instead of Cwd:getcwd(), but I don't know if this is a generally applicable solution for others, or if there's a nicer way to solve it. Thanks, Sam. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-xenU-6434-i386 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash mr depends on no packages. Versions of packages mr recommends: ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.66-1 collection of modules that parse H ii libwww-perl 5.837-1 The World-Wide Web library for Per ii perl 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages mr suggests: pn bzr <none> (no description available) ii curl 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or pn cvs <none> (no description available) pn darcs <none> (no description available) pn fossil <none> (no description available) ii git [git-core] 1:1.7.10-1~bpo60+1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii git-core 1:1.7.10-1~bpo60+1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii liburi-perl 1.60-1~bpo60+1 module to manipulate and access UR ii mercurial 1.6.4-1 scalable distributed version contr ii subversion 1.6.12dfsg-6 Advanced version control system ii vcsh 0.20120227-1~bpo60+1 manage config files in $HOME via f -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
