Ubuntu 18.04 has an apt package for git-repo that installs repo 2.8. Ubuntu 20.04 uses a snap package that installs repo 1.12.37-3. Note the serious regression in the version number. This old snap version does not work. I get python errors. ubuntu-bug says I should contact the author of the snap package to report the bug, but he stopped maintaining this package years ago, which is coincidentally why it is hopelessly out-of-date, so reporting bugs there is useless.
gondor:2019$ /snap/bin/repo init
warning: gpg (GnuPG) is not available.
warning: Installing it is strongly encouraged.
warning: templates not found /build/git-repo-publish/parts/git/install/usr/share
/git-core/templates
Get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/clone.bundle
Get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
remote: Finding sources: 100% (7/7)
remote: Total 7 (delta 5), reused 7 (delta 5)
Unpacking objects: 100% (7/7), done.
From https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
60fc51b..cebf227 master -> origin/master
dbfbcb1..60fc51b stable -> origin/stable
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/wilson/tmp/.repo/repo/main.py", line 49, in <module>
import event_log
File "/home/wilson/tmp/.repo/repo/event_log.py", line 167, in <module>
_EVENT_ID = multiprocessing.Value('i', 1)
File "/snap/git-repo/18/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 2
53, in Value
return Value(typecode_or_type, *args, **kwds)
File "/snap/git-repo/18/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py", li
ne 108, in Value
lock = RLock()
File "/snap/git-repo/18/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 1
83, in RLock
return RLock()
File "/snap/git-repo/18/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", lin
e 172, in __init__
SemLock.__init__(self, RECURSIVE_MUTEX, 1, 1)
File "/snap/git-repo/18/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", lin
e 75, in __init__
sl = self._semlock = _multiprocessing.SemLock(kind, value, maxvalue)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
gondor:2020$
The workaround is to remove the snap git-repo package, and install repo directly from the google source site.
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