Re: [Help-gnu-arch] Need help on importing first tree. Following the tutorial only makes me import and empty dir.

[Jean Helou]

Sven Luther wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to learn how to use arch, and i am faced with a problem
> following the tutorial.
>
> I have followed the tutorial, but it seems that the files don't get
> added to the archive, and only an empty file is commited.
>
> For information, i do :
>
> tla my-id "Sven Luther <address@hidden>"
> tla make-archive address@hidden ~/debian/ARCH/parted
> tla my-default-archive address@hidden
> tla archive-setup debian--mainline--1.0
> => move into initial import tree
> tla init-tree debian--mainline--1.0
> => tla inventory --names --source shows me all the files.
> vi `tla make-log` => and adds initial import Summary.
> tla import
> => ERROR :
>   These files would be source but lack inventory ids (`tla add' or a
>   tagline perhaps?):
>
>   debian
>   parted_1.6.6.orig.tar.gz
>
>  * imported address@hidden/debian--mainline--1.0
>  
From this it seems that your directory _has_ been imported, but it is 
considered empty since your files weren't tagged

> tla add debian
> tla add parted_1.6.6.orig.tar.gz
>  
This is okay, it tags the files for your future operations (such as 
commit -hint, hint- )

> tla import
>   import: tree already has patch log entries for version
>   tree: /home/luther/debian/parted/repo
>   version: address@hidden/address@hidden:~/debian/parted/repo$ 
>
>  
Well, it _has_ been imported once before, therefore you should do
$>tla make-log
edit the log file
$>tla commit

And your files will be commited as a new patch to the empty tree, you 
can't "re-import" the version.

> But when trying to tla get from elsewhere, i get only an empty dir with
> an {arch} directory in it, and sure enough :
>
> cd ~/debian/ARCH/parted/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/base-0
> tar tzvf debian--mainline--1.0--base-0.src.tar.gz
>   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/
>   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/
>   -rw-r--r-- luther/luther    52 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/.arch-project-tree
>   -rw-r--r-- luther/luther  6803 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/=tagging-method
>   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/
>   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/
>   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/
>   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/address@hidden/
>   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/
>   -rw-r--r-- luther/luther   303 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
> debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/base-0
>
> Not a single mention of my files.
>
>  
See before.

> I did this two times, following the instructions to the letter, at least
> this seems so to me, but without luck.
>
>  
Actually you reversed 2 operations : you didn't tag the files before 
importing. and then you tried to reimport over an existing version.

Hope this helps

Jean Helou