Summary

chicken-install -override doesn't allow installation of eggs from a file

Metadata

• Id: bb67df630905af3b5b53e5502f60e42900db4662
• Trac id: 1364
• Type: defect
• Reporter: wasamasa
• Owner: felix
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: core tools
• Estimated difficulty: easy
• Resolution: wontfix
• Priority: minor
• Milestone: 4.13.0
• Version: 4.12.0
• Changetime: 2017-10-19 12:19:33 UTC
• Created: 2017-04-15 13:48:14 UTC
• Keywords: chicken-install

Description

Repro:

• `chicken-status -list > deps`
• `chicken-install -override deps`

Expected result:

`chicken-install` asking me whether I'd like to install the eggs listed in that file.

Actual result:

`chicken-install` aborts with "no setup-scripts to process".

Changes and comments

[2017-08-25 15:30:58 UTC] sjamaan set difficulty to easy

[2017-08-25 15:30:58 UTC] sjamaan changed milestone from someday to 4.13.0

[2017-08-25 15:30:58 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

Not sure if this is worth fixing (or even still relevant for 5.0), but if we do so it should probably be in 4.13

[2017-10-14 15:06:54 UTC] felix changed status from new to assigned

[2017-10-14 15:06:54 UTC] felix set owner to felix

[2017-10-19 12:19:33 UTC] felix changed status from assigned to closed

[2017-10-19 12:19:33 UTC] felix set resolution to wontfix

[2017-10-19 12:19:33 UTC] felix wrote:

This is a misunderstanding of the `-override` option. It is not used to specify eggs to be installed, but only to provide an egg->version mapping.

The intention makes sense, though. Chicken 5 will have a `-from-list` option for this purpose.