Brokenness in newly created dist-git repositories

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:30:48PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 07/22/2014 12:11 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Two new packages/repositories have been created for me recently.
> > Both appear to be broken in a subtle, non-fatal way:
> > 
> >   $ fedpkg clone ocaml-camlp4
> >   $ cd ocaml-camlp4/
> >   $ fedpkg verrel
> >   Exception AttributeError: '_read_only' in <bound method write.__del__ of <git.config.write object at 0x1872d70>> ignored
> > 
> > [ the command hangs for a few minutes before printing ... ]
> > 
> >   ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.3.git87c6a6b0.fc22
> > 
> > The other repository which is broken in the same way is `ocaml-labltk'.
> > 
> > This doesn't happen for me on any other dist-git repository, so I
> > don't believe it has anything to do with my copy of fedpkg or my
> > environment.
> > 
> > I opened a bug about this but it didn't get any traction:
> > 
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121333
> > 
> > I'm slightly worried that all new repos are being built incorrectly
> > somehow.
> 
> See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843292
> 
> ... but you've commented on that before.  Did you forget, or do you
> think this is somehow different?

I probably forgot, but then I am following 653 open bugs :-)  The
bug didn't turn up in several searches I performed.

The problem is this happens, reproducibly (for me), on two new
repositories which have just been created.  So I wonder if those repos
have been created wrongly.

Rich.

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