1.17: How to delete backup.bzr after remote branch upgrade in launchpad?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Russel Winder wrote:
> Aaron,
> 
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 13:34 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> You can use an sftp client, or my bzr transport client, Hitchhiker,
>> which is at lp:hitchhiker.
> 
> I thought I would try this approach to deleting the backup directories
> from a branch upgrade.  I thought I would try lftp since it has "rm -r"
> where sftp doesn't.
> 

If you do "lftp user at host" it tries ftp (first at least) and I believe
launchpad is configured that any connection that is not allowed is
accepted, but hung indefinitely.

I think you need to do

lftp sftp://user@host/...

Or at least, give that a shot and see if it does better.

John
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