juju doesn't play nice with symlinked charm directories

[Tom Haddon]

If you are deploying local charms and using symlinks for the charm directories (which you might need to do to have different versions of the same charm deployed in the same environment) juju-deployer seems to fail to upload the charm correctly:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6069918/

The charms were laid out as follows:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6069979/

[Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat)]

Technically this isn't valid from a charm definition perspective. Juju-deployer isn't uploading the charm, juju-core is.

[Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat)]

There isn't a good way to do this without modifying the charm contents. The charm by definition needs to have a metadata.yaml charm name that matches the directory name. Its also really unclear what the use case for this is. You can simply deploy the service multiple times from the same charm.. and use juju upgrade-charm to switch the origin/lineage of the charm if needed.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

A sensible, hint of an error message would be nice. Something that tells you how to fix what's wrong (per Kapil's comment).

[Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat)]

added core, as its properly a core bug since deployer atm, just shells out to core cli for deploys.

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

Re-targeting to Juju 2.x