Pkg.add() fails

[lendle]

I tried adding a package after a fresh install and deleting $HOME/.julia and got the following error on both OS X and linux.

julia> Pkg.add("GLM")
INFO: Initializing package repository /Users/sam/.julia/v0.3
INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
ERROR: realpath: No such file or directory
 in realpath at path.jl:127
 in mkcachedir at pkg/cache.jl:9
 in prefetch at pkg/cache.jl:34
 in resolve at pkg/entry.jl:388
 in resolve at pkg/entry.jl:363
 in edit at pkg/entry.jl:24
 in anonymous at multi.jl:1308

Looks like realpath doesn't like it when it's argument does not exist.
I tried replacing pkg/cache.jl line 9 with

cache = joinpath(realpath("."), ".cache")

and pkg/cache.jl line 16 with

rootcache = joinpath(realpath(pkgroot()), ".cache")

That seemed to solve the realpath issue (for me at least), but still no luck:

julia> Pkg.add("StatsBase")
INFO: Initializing package repository /Users/sam/.julia/v0.3
INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
INFO: Cloning cache of StatsBase from git://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl.git
INFO: Installing StatsBase v0.3.5
fatal: destination path 'StatsBase' already exists and is not an empty directory.
ERROR: failed process: Process(`git clone -q /Users/sam/.julia/v0.3/StatsBase StatsBase`, ProcessExited(128)) [128]
 in pipeline_error at process.jl:480
 in run at process.jl:457
 in install at pkg/write.jl:28
 in resolve at pkg/entry.jl:406
 in resolve at pkg/entry.jl:363
 in edit at pkg/entry.jl:24
 in anonymous at multi.jl:1308

Now it seems the issue is Cache.path, defined in dir.jl, is returning $HOME/v0.3/StatsBase instead of the git URL. Not sure what to do here.

By the way, the StatsBase directory exists and is not empty but looks like partial contents of a typical .git directory:

ls ~/.julia/v0.3/StatsBase
hooks  info  objects  refs  HEAD  config  description  packed-refs

[ihnorton]

@kmsquire

[simonbyrne]

I'm seeing this as well: also make test-pkg is failing. Currently this isn't included in make testall, and so not in travis: I'm assuming because it requires a network connection to function. Is there anyway could modify this so it could be included in the travis checks?

[kmsquire]

Sorry, could someone please revert
64e24b0
64e24b011c6adc4977393ba8f1306d6dfbfc9492for
now? I can't get to it right this second, but will look at it later today.

On Thursday, January 30, 2014, Simon Byrne notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm seeing this as well: also make test-pkg is failing. Currently this
isn't included in make testall, and so not in travis: I'm assuming
because it requires a network connection to function. Is there anyway could
modify this so it could be included in the travis checks?

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[staticfloat]

Reverted in d869093

[ihnorton]

Was just about to push a fix :/

[staticfloat]

:P Feel free to revert my reversion, and then put your fix on top of that.

[kmsquire]

Still one more issue needs fixing for unix.

[kmsquire]

(working on it)

[kmsquire]

Closed by 9028e46