Hi, I just had a real hard time to get the forest extension working and finally found out that it was because the forest extension doesn't honor the "http_proxy" environment variable. So I thought I'll post it here in case anybody else will face the same problem in order to save him some time. (If you're only interested in the solution of the problem, you can skip the next paragraphs and jump right to the end of this post).
I installed Mercurial and the forest extension as described in various places, here on the list and on the Web - that was the easy part:) Afterwards I could do: /share/software/OpenJDK> hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/ jdk7 requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 2 changesets with 26 changes to 26 files 26 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved So everything worked fine! Note that I'm behind a firewall, but Mercurial correctly picked up my http proxy from the "http_proxy" environment variable! But now, everytime I tried 'fclone', I got the following error: /share/software/OpenJDK> hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/ jdk7 [.] abort: error: Name or service not known That was not amusing. First I thought I got something wrong during the installation of the forest extension. I than used the '--traceback' option to "hg" which told me that the error was in keepalive.py: /share/software/OpenJDK> hg --traceback fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/ jdk7 [.] Traceback (most recent call last): ... File "/share/software/Python-2.5.1_bin/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/keepalive.py", line 328, in _start_transaction raise urllib2.URLError(err) URLError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> abort: error: Name or service not known So I enabled the debugging output in keepalive.py and realized, that the first two connections to hg.openjdk.java.net where made trough the proxy, while the third one (the first that actually fetches files), wants to go directly to hg.openjdk.java.net, which badly fails: /share/software/OpenJDK> hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/ jdk7 keepalive.py - creating new connection to proxy:8080 (1078835788) keepalive.py - STATUS: 200, OK keepalive.py - re-using connection to proxy:8080 (1078835788) keepalive.py - STATUS: 200, OK [.] keepalive.py - creating new connection to hg.openjdk.java.net (1078970092) abort: error: Name or service not known The problem can be fixed by adding the proxy settings to your .hgrc file, like this: [http_proxy] host=proxy:8080 where you have to replace "proxy:8080" with the name and the port of your real proxy host! @Simon: I took your email address from Forest Extension Wiki page at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ForestExtension where you're listed as maintainer of the forest extension. Could you be so kind to have a look at this problem and fix it if possible. Regards, Volker
