733975 - Sync server build fails on "hg pull" under Debian wheezy

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Server: Sync, defect)

Description

[Daniel Dawson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
Build ID: 20120215223356

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to build the server as described at http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html


Actual results:

After from the KeyError that I'm informed is expected behavior, repeating "make build" ends in the following output:

===
Building the app 
  Checking the environ   [ok]
  Updating the repo   [ok]
  Building Services dependencies 
    Getting server-core 'hg pull' failed with code 1
pulling from https://hg.mozilla.org/services/server-core
searching for changes
no changes found


[fail][fail][fail]
make: *** [build] Error 1
===

According to the hg man page on *my* system, this is the behavior of pull:
  Returns 0 on success, 1 if no changes found or an update had unresolved files.

Note the "if no changes found" part. I have no idea who added that, but it appears to be Debian-specific.


Expected results:

As this behavior of hg doesn't appear to be in the upstream code, I'm not sure what the right thing to do is, although I agree with gps that 'hg pull' (probably) shouldn't do that.

Comment 1

[Toby Elliott [:telliott]]

Suspect this is long fixed or there's not a ton that we can do about it.