Hi darcs-ers

What does the error below mean? This is on a unix system.  Main repo is http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.

thanks

Simon

simonpj@cam-04-unx:~/darcs/HEAD$ darcs --version
2.4.98.1 (beta 1)

simonpj@cam-04-unx:~/darcs/HEAD$ darcs annotate compiler/main/HscTypes.lhs
darcs: failed to read patch:
Thu Nov 19 14:24:22 GMT 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
  * Check upper/lower bounds on various RTS flags (#3633)

  Also, make K mean 1024 rather than 1000, in RTS flags (similarly for M
  and G).  The main reason I want to change it is that otherwise this
  might be confusing:

  exp3_8: error in RTS option -H4k: size outside allowed range (4096 - 18446744073709551615)

  And I think the original reason for using 1000 instead of 1024,
  worries about direct-mapped caches, is not an issue in this context
  (even if you can find a direct-mapped cache these days).
Couldn't fetch `0000005244-ade0cfb56476f9eb62552ab37f80a3e2c1e3808c8a5005eb2243ace5d74f323d'
in subdir patches from sources:

thisrepo:/home/simonpj/darcs/HEAD
cache:/home/simonpj/.darcs/cache
thisrepo:/home/simonpj/darcs/ghc
repo:http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc

simonpj@cam-04-unx:~/darcs/HEAD$

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Sorry for the late reply, Simon.  It seems to mean that repo on cam-04-
unx was lazily fetched (is that correct?) which is fine, and that to do 
an annotate, darcs needed to fetch a patch file from 
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc... which it failed to do so.

Out of curiosity, I tried fetching this file by hand, and it worked:
wget http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/_darcs/patches/0000005244-
ade0cfb56476f9eb62552ab37f80a3e2c1e3808c8a5005eb2243ace5d74f323d

Was that a lazily fetched repository?  I wonder if this was some kind of 
intermittent network failure.  What happens if you repeat the annotate?

Thanks,

I think it was lazy.  I believe I was connected.  At least the error message could have been nicer!

I'm out of time at the moment, but I'll bleat if it happens again.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Eric Kow [mailto:bugs@darcs.net]
| Sent: 15 November 2010 14:13
| To: dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com; Simon Peyton-Jones
| Subject: [issue1969] darcs annotate fails
| 
| 
| Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> added the comment:
| 
| Sorry for the late reply, Simon.  It seems to mean that repo on cam-04-
| unx was lazily fetched (is that correct?) which is fine, and that to do
| an annotate, darcs needed to fetch a patch file from
| http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc... which it failed to do so.
| 
| Out of curiosity, I tried fetching this file by hand, and it worked:
| wget http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/_darcs/patches/0000005244-
| ade0cfb56476f9eb62552ab37f80a3e2c1e3808c8a5005eb2243ace5d74f323d
| 
| Was that a lazily fetched repository?  I wonder if this was some kind of
| intermittent network failure.  What happens if you repeat the annotate?
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| ----------
| assignedto:  -> simonpj
| priority:  -> bug
| status: unknown -> waiting-for
| 
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| <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1969>
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Annotate implementation is different now, and the ghc repository no
longer exists, I say we give up on this.