Re: bzr branch makes bogus "No space left on device" claim and dies

[B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 04:28, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com> writes:
>>Branching from savannah failed yesterday due to the "WTF is the trunk"
>>problem already thoroughly discussed on this list.
>
> (Hi, Ben!)
>
> I'm not familiar with that problem, but maybe I missed the thread.  If
> you're able to repeatedly get that problem, can you describe it in more
> detail, or point to the thread?

Sorry, I was being to vague. I was referring to the "BZR error!"
thread started on Jan 4 by Angelo Graziosi. At some point in the
discussion it looked like renaming trunk to emacs-23 and then
replacing trunk with a symlink was the culprit.

#On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 03:01, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
#>>>> May be related to the fact that trunk is a symlink now.  As a workaround
#>>>> you can use the emacs-23 branch instead.
#>>> Can someone confirm that this is the culprit?
#>> It's common that http servers ignore symlinks for security reasons.
#>> It's not even listed in <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs>.
#>
#> OK, I reverted this change, so there's no more `emacs-23' branch and
#> trunk is not a symlink any more.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 04:28, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com> writes:
>>Perhaps someone could make a tarball of the repository available to
>>make getting bootstrapped more reliable and faster.
>
> Well, I put a tarball up here a week or so ago, so it should still be
> useful as a starting point:
>
>  http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/emacs-bzr-repository.tar.gz

Super! That sounds great. I'll grab that on monday.

// Ben