directory '/var/lib/mercurial-server/' is missing

Question

After reinstall mercurial-server, directory '/var/lib/mercurial-server/' missing

apt-get purge mercurial-server
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mercurial-server
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mercurial mercurial-server

i try:

shabak@Ubuntu:/etc/mercurial-server$ cd /var/lib/mercurial-server
-bash: cd: /var/lib/mercurial-server: No such file or directory

I can't find the folder 'repos'.

Please help!

Answer 1

The install script creates and initializes that directory only if the "hg" user doesn't exist. Otherwise it assumes you have an existing setup it should use. Try adding these deluser and delgroup commands to what you're doing:

apt-get purge mercurial-server
deluser --remove-home --system hg
delgroup  --system hg
rm -rf /var/lib/mercurial-server
apt-get update
apt-get install mercurial mercurial-server

Alternately, before the "purge", do "dpkg-reconfigure mercurial-server" and set the option that destroys all data.

I'll detect and fix this in a future revision - thanks for reporting it!

Answer 2

Are you aware that mercurial-server isn't part of the mercurial project? It's a poorly maintained, third party application that does very little (nothing?) that mercurial can't already do without it.

If you're just trying to serve mercurial repositories consider using the hgweb program that came with Mercurial, or just use ssh access to the repositories in which case you need no software past the mercurial client at all.