Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool similar to Git and Bazaar. Mercurial is written in Python and is used by projects such as Mozilla and Vim.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-3.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9d158d96aef4ad02cc3c15509257d13b
Download size: 4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 45 MB (additional 276 MB for the tests and 2.3 MB for docs generation)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (additional 2.1 SBU for tests, using parallelism=8)
CVS-1.11.23, git-2.3.0, GnuPG-2.0.26 (gpg2 with Python bindings), Subversion-1.8.11 (with Python bindings), Bazaar, Docutils (required to build the documentation), pyflakes, pygments, and pyOpenSSL
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mercurial
Build Mercurial by issuing the following command:
make build
To build the documentation (requires Docutils), issue:
make doc
Running the test suite is optional. If there are failures, e.g.
test-parse-date.t, those tests can be disabled. To test the results
in the subdiretory tests/tmp,
skipping failing tests, issue:
cat > tests/blacklists/failed-tests << "EOF"# Test Failures test-parse-date.tEOF rm -rf tests/tmp && TESTFLAGS="-j<N>--tmpdir tmp --blacklist blacklists/failed-tests" \ make check
where <N> is an
integer between one and the number of processor threads, inclusive.
In order to investigate a particular apparently failing test, e.g
“test-parse-date.t”, issue
the following commands (notice that omitting --debug sometimes modifies the result):
pushd tests && rm -rf tmp && ./run-tests.py --debug --tmpdir tmp test-parse-date.t && popd
Install Mercurial by running the
following command (as root):
make PREFIX=/usr install-bin
If you built the documentation, install it by running the following
command (as root):
make PREFIX=/usr install-doc
After installed, two very quick and simple tests should run correctly. First one needs some configuration:
cat >> ~/.hgrc << "EOF"
[ui]
username = <user_name> <your@mail>
EOF
where you must replace <user_name> and <your@mail> (mail is optional and can be omitted). With the user identity defined, run hg debuginstall and several lines will be displayed, the last one reading "no problems detected". Another quick and simple test is just hg, which should output basic commands that can be used with hg.
/etc/mercurial/hgrc
If you have installed the Certificate Authority
Certificates and you want Mercurial to use them, as the root user:
install -v -d -m755 /etc/mercurial &&
cat > /etc/mercurial/hgrc << "EOF"
[web]
cacerts = /etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt
EOF
Last updated on 2015-02-23 13:51:12 -0800