cannot check out from a mirrored repository

[Brian Cassidy]

I've upgraded from Ubuntu Dapper to Ubuntu Edgy -- with it came a newer version of svk (1.08-1ubuntu1). However, now I can't check out any code from a mirror repository:

bricas@Brian:~$ svk co //mirror/edsu/sru/trunk SRU
Can't call method "find" on unblessed reference at /usr/share/perl5/SVK/XD.pm line 260.

The relevant source line is:

258: sub unlock {
259: my ($self) = @_;
260: my @paths = $self->{checkout}->find ('', {lock => $$});

[Brian Cassidy (brian-cassidy)]

After talking to the author of svk (clkao), we've deduced that it was a YAML compatibility error. I had a newer version of YAML.pm (0.62) installed which serialized the ~/.svk/config file differently than how the version shipped with Edgy (0.57) expected.

[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

Since this bug has been identified as a consequence of something you did at a low-level, outside of "normal" use, I don't really think this is a bug. Feel free to re-open if you disagree!

[Rafal-maj-it (rafal-maj-it)]

Freshly installed SVK is not working with the same error message!

SVK is useless in Ubuntu