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:
DB2 x $dir
0 '/home/sam/.config/vcsh/repo.d/mr.git/'
Compared to the cwd, which is like this:
DB3 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-perl3.66-1collection of modules that parse H
ii libwww-perl5.837-1 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 curl7.21.0-2.1+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-core1:1.7.10-1~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 vcsh0.20120227-1~bpo60+1 manage config files in $HOME via f
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