Failure during remote upgrade

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 30/09/2009 17:45, Barry Warsaw wrote:
  > So, John helped me walk through a few different scenarios on irc, but
> here's what I ultimately did:

Thanks for the explanations.

> I did it this way because it was fairly simple

Yes, I thought too, before coming here: "After all, that's DVCS, the LP 
branch isn't more important than those I have on hard disk, I can delete 
it and re-create it from the local copies."

> I did not want to blow away the 
> old 3.0 branch.

I don't have this issue, at least. :-)

> After all is said and done, I think the safest way to migrate your 
> Launchpad branches is to basically follow these instructions:
> 
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/upgrade-guide/index.html#data-migration

Ah, I should have searched these before... But there are issues in my 
case, perhaps not covered by this page.

> * Do not attempt a remote upgrade unless your network connection is rock 
> solid.

Somehow it might seem strange... LP is supposed to be a smart server, a 
"smart" way could have been "send the order to LP to upgrade and let it 
manage that" which wouldn't involve lot of network traffic...

> * Local upgrades work pretty well and were reasonably fast, although I 
> have a beefy new machine :)

Same for me, they are surprisingly fast. I have an old machine, but 
relatively small repositories...

>   * Look for "XXX is the current focus of development", e.g. "GNU 
> Mailman 3.0 series is the current focus of development"
>   * Click the edit icon (pencil)

I don't see that on my LP account. Perhaps that's because all my 
branches are in +junk: these are more a collection of small projects and 
experiments than real projects, so I didn't gave them real top-level 
repositories.

I can delete these branches, but not edit them, or I missed something.
I suppose I can go ahead and delete them then re-crate them from my 
local copy, but I prefer to have some confirmation before going on...

> So it's doable, but Launchpad should make the workflow much easier.

My thoughts exactly. It is easier said than done, but I wonder why we 
must do manually relatively complex manual step when the server software 
could do these quickly and perhaps more reliably...

There is something I didn't understood. I know I can do the job with 
hitchhiker, but I want to learn to use SFTP which I haven't used before. 
I will fall back on hitchhiker later if I can't do it this way.

My usual FTP client is FileZilla (on Windows) and it supports SFTP.
But if I try to connect to sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net with my 
credentials, I get the following log:

   Status:	Connexion à bazaar.launchpad.net...
Response:	fzSftp started
  Command:	open "philho at bazaar.launchpad.net" 22
  Command:	Confiance en la nouvelle clé de l'hôte :Une seule fois
   Status:	Connected to bazaar.launchpad.net
   Status:	Récupération du contenu du dossier...
  Command:	pwd
Response:	Current directory is: "/"
  Command:	ls
   Status:	Listing directory /
    Error:	Unable to open .: no such file or directory

Apparently I can connect, but not do a listing nor go to a directory 
(tried /~philho, /philho, and some variants).
Pageant is running (it is supported by FileZilla), and I was able to do:

bzr info -v sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~philho/%2Bjunk/Lua

for example, as described in another recent thread.

I am missing something? I searched LP docs about SFTP, but authors seem 
to find it so trivially obvious they don't specify detailed information 
(URL, paths...).

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