[nightly] 21-Oct-2007 build of STABLE on i386-unknown-linux (cam-02-unx.europe.corp.microsoft.com)

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 14:09 -0400, GHC Build Reports wrote:
> Build description = STABLE on i386-unknown-linux (cam-02-unx.europe.corp.microsoft.com)
> Build location    = /playpen/ghc/nightly/STABLE-cam-02-unx
> Build config file = /home/simonmar/nightly/site/msrc/conf-STABLE-cam-02-unx
> 
> Nightly build started on cam-02-unx at Sun Oct 21 19:00:01 BST 2007.
> **** checking out new source tree                 ... darcs: failed to read patch in get_extra:
> Thu Sep  6 02:21:44 BST 2007  Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
>   * Remove now-empty dependencies dir
>   Not needed since cabal-install moved to another repo.
> Perhaps this is a 'partial' repository?
> darcs failed: 256 at ./darcs-all line 57.
> Nightly run ended at Sun Oct 21 19:11:25 BST 2007


The d.h.o/cabal and the d.h.o/cabal-branches/cabal-1.2 had weird messed
up repos. They both had _darcs/prestine-old files in them which would
seem to indicate some tool had got interrupted. With the help of Ganesh
I fixed it up by 'get'ting  the repo and re-checkpointing. The repo
backups are in /srv/darcs/archive/.

Anyway, this works again:
darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal
darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-branches/cabal-1.2

There are several other repos under d.h.o:/srv/darcs/ that have
_darcs/prestine-old directories. Those all are ok in that one can get
--partial them. I don't know what caused any of them to get into that
state.

Perhaps we should upgrade the darcs on darcs.haskell.org from the
current "1.0.9rc1 (release candidate 1)" to the real 1.0.9 (or some
other version on the advice of our local darcs experts).

Duncan