Re: [Caml-list] OPAM 1.2.1

[Stefan Schmiedl <s@xss.de>]

Mr. Herr (27.03. 19:29):

> 
> 
> On 27.03.2015 19:09, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> > On 27 Mar 2015, at 18:00, Mr. Herr <misterherr@freenet.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> the 1.2.1 binary from https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/tag/1.2.1, as well as the compile result of
> >> opam-full-1.2.1.tar.gz are behaving strange on my opensuse 1.3.1.
> >>
> >> All I did was to replace the 1.2.0 binaries with the 1.2.1 version.
> >>
> >> Here a console log where 'opam' is /usr/local/bin/opam-1.2.1-x86_64-Linux
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> strobel@s131-intel:/data/lvmvol/strobel-sources> opam update
> >>
> >> =-=- Updating package repositories =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >> [default] synchronized from https://opam.ocaml.org
> >>
> >> Updates available for 4.02.1, apply them with 'opam upgrade':
> >> ===== ↻  1   ↗  1 =====
> >> strobel@s131-intel:/data/lvmvol> opam-1.2.0-x86_64-Linux update
> >> [default] Downloading https://opam.ocaml.org/urls.txt
> >> Updating /opt/opam/repo/compiler-index ...
> >> Updating /opt/opam/compilers/ ...
> >> Updating /opt/opam/repo/package-index ...
> >> Updating /opt/opam/packages/ ...
> >>
> >> Updates available for 4.02.1, apply them with 'opam upgrade':
> >> === 1 to reinstall | 1 to upgrade ===
> >> strobel@s131-intel:/data/lvmvol>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> What can I do to debug this?
> >>
> > I'm not sure if I've missed something obvious, since you haven't specified what you think has gone wrong. You appear to have typed in "opam update" twice.
> >
> > Either do "opam update -u" (which updates the package sets and upgrades them), or "opam update && opam upgrade".
> >
> >
> the output from the 1.2.0 version is there for reference, this is what I have come to 
> expect.
> 
> The 1.2.1 binary is not doing the same checks, and outputs hieroglyphs - very dubious.

With an unicode-compatible font, the first glyph looks like a circle
with an arrow, i.e. 1 reinstall, and the second is an arrow pointing
to upper-right, i.e. 1 upgrade.

s.