The bug is still present in 1.3.4

[this is a re-submission - it was already fixed in 1.2.2 but apparently didn't make it into 1.3]

Hi,

"tla grab" fails without an error message if "Archive-Name" has not yet
been registered. I suppose the expected behaviour would be that it does
register the archive.

I've verified the bug with the official tla-1.2 and tla-1.2.1 [and 1.3] releases.

Test case:

address@bogus.example.com:/tmp> mkdir test
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp> cd test
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> HOME=`pwd` tla grab
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/greylisting/releases--0.1
archive not registered: -email is unavailable-
  (see register-archive)
Grabbing:
address@bogus.example.com/address@bogus.example.com">http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/Archives/address@bogus.example.com
Source: address@bogus.example.com">http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/Archives/address@bogus.example.com, Dest:
greylisting-spp--releases--0.1
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> ls -alR
.:
insgesamt 3
drwxr-xr-x    2 conrad   users          48 2004-08-27 14:27
,,grab.greylisting-spp--releases--0.1.1093609651.3011.2
drwxr-xr-x    3 conrad   users         120 2004-08-27 14:27 .
drwxrwxrwt   20 root     root         1800 2004-08-27 14:27 ..

./,,grab.greylisting-spp--releases--0.1.1093609651.3011.2:
insgesamt 1
drwxr-xr-x    2 conrad   users          48 2004-08-27 14:27 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 conrad   users         120 2004-08-27 14:27 ..
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> # failed, obviously
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> cd ..
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp> rm -rf test
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp>

This works:

address@bogus.example.com:/tmp> mkdir test
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp> cd test
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> HOME=`pwd` tla register-archive -email is unavailable-
address@bogus.example.com">http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/Archives/address@bogus.example.com
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> HOME=`pwd` tla grab
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/greylisting/releases--0.1
Grabbing:
address@bogus.example.com/address@bogus.example.com">http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/Archives/address@bogus.example.com
Source: address@bogus.example.com">http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/Archives/address@bogus.example.com, Dest:
greylisting-spp--releases--0.1

• from archive cached: address@bogus.example.com/greylisting-spp--releases--0.1--base-0
• patching for revision: address@bogus.example.com/greylisting-spp--releases--0.1--patch-1

[...]

• patching for revision: address@bogus.example.com/greylisting-spp--releases--0.1--patch-7

address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> ls -al
insgesamt 4
drwxr-xr-x    4 conrad   users         128 2004-08-27 14:35 .
drwxrwxrwt   20 root     root         1800 2004-08-27 14:35 ..
drwx------    3 conrad   users          80 2004-08-27 14:34 .arch-params
drwxr-xr-x    6 conrad   users         240 2004-08-27 14:35
greylisting-spp--releases--0.1
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> # expected result
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp/test> cd ..
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp> rm -rf test
address@bogus.example.com:/tmp>

Looking at the source of libarch/cmd-grab.c this seems to be easy to fix:

[...]

>      /********************
>       * Time to grab the archive
>       */
>      final_revision = find_latest_revision (archive_name, target_revision);
>      arch_set_archive_location(archive_name, archive_location, 0,
> ARCH_REG_FAIL_QUIET);
>
>      archive = arch_archive_connect (archive_name, 0);

[...]

find_latest_revision is called before the archive has been registered!
Swapping the two lines (find_latest_revision and arch_set_archive_location)
seems to solve the problem, see the attached patch.

Bye,
        Peter