How do you get there from here?

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Tue Jan 22 22:12:14 GMT 2008


On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 08:44 -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> I was trying to follow directions:
> 
> $ bzr update

> =====================
> At this point, I did a number of things to investigate why I could not
> get the lock.  It turns out, I did a ``yum install'' as root (because
> you
> have to do that as root) and so the lock files were owned by and
> only modifiable by root.  Oops.  (Not your issue, tho.)  Meanwhile,
> the ``if conversion fails, you can move this directory back'' comment
> was pages and pages back in my scroll history and not quite scrolled
> off yet.  Good thing because future attempts:
> ======================
> $ bzr upgrade file:///share/st/devbk/simple-cdd-0.3.5/
> starting upgrade of file:///share/st/devbk/simple-cdd-0.3.5/
> making backup of tree history
> bzr: ERROR: File exists:
> u'/share/st/devbk/simple-cdd-0.3.5/.bzr.backup': [Errno 17] File
> exists: '/share/st/devbk/simple-cdd-0.3.5/.bzr.backup'
> ======================
> don't give you that hint.  Hint: it would be a good idea to repeat the
> hint  :)
> It would have avoided this missive.
> 

Hi,

It's a bit late, but you can find this at 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/185180

if you want to subscribe.

Thanks,

James





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