[darcs-users] Ambiguous occurrence `bracket' - error

[David Roundy]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Gour wrote:
> David Roundy (droundy at abridgegame.org) wrote:
> > Ok, I've fixed this.  It seems that Daan is keen on reexporting standard
> > libraries, which is causing this sort of a conflict...
> 
> OK. Thanks.
> 
> Trying to pull latest darcs from repo gives:
> 
> Shall I pull this patch? [ynW?] y
> [don't need package color for manual.
> droundy at abridgegame.org**20031111151421]
> Shall I pull this patch? [ynW?] y
> [fix chicken and egg bug in convert-repo.
> droundy at abridgegame.org**20031122150212
>  There was a problem where convert-repo couldn't convert a repo that was
>   using the old format for inventories.
>   ]
>   Shall I pull this patch? [ynW?] y
> 
>   Fail: does not exist
>   Action: openFileEx
>   Reason: No such file or directory
>   File: /home/gour/repos/darcs/_darcs/patches/20031110125819-53a90-3af8940bcc576d7cfa1101c4d82ba64fe8b347e7.gz

It looks like you need to do make convert-repo and ./convert-repo to get
your old patches into the new format.  If we're unlucky you've run into the
chicken and egg problem and your inventory needs to be converted also... in
that case you could use darcs 0.9.14 to pull the above patch, compile the
new convert-repo and run *that*.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org