Failure during remote upgrade

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 30, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
>
>> 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."

Right.  The branches themselves are less important, but Launchpad  
attaches lots of other artifacts to a branch, such as bugs, merge  
proposals, series, dev focus status, etc.  If you use these features,  
"deleting a branch" gets more problematic.

>> * 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...

Agreed.  And as I mentioned in a previous message, Bazaar really  
should be doing the upgrade in a side location and only moving that  
into place if it completes successfully.

>>  * 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.

So you probably do not have any "focus of development" branches.  That  
makes your life easier. :)

> 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...

Someone else will have to answer that.  You should have permission to  
edit your branches, but maybe +junk branches are weird in some way.

>> 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).

I'm only using the command line sftp, but doing 'cd ~mailman-coders/ 
mailman/3.0' followed by 'ls -la' worked for me.

> 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...).

It's always obvious once you know it. :)

-Barry

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