upgrade-charm --switch doesn't work with local charms

[Chris MacNaughton]

$ juju upgrade-charm --switch ./ceph-mon ceph
ERROR cannot upgrade "ceph" to "ceph-mon"
$ juju upgrade-charm --switch cs:ceph-mon ceph
Added charm "cs:ceph-mon-7" to the model.
$ juju --version
2.0.2-yakkety-amd64

[Laurent Sesquès (sajoupa)]

Hi,

FYI, I had the same issue:
$ juju upgrade-charm --switch /[...]/charms/xenial/ubuntu infra
ERROR cannot upgrade "ubuntu" to "ubuntu-basenode"
$ cat /[...]/charms/xenial/ubuntu/metadata.yaml
name: ubuntu-basenode
[...]

$ juju --version
2.3.1-xenial-amd64

Model and controller version: 2.2.9

Thanks.

[Haw Loeung (hloeung)]

Hmm, don't we need '--path' instead for local charms?

[Laurent Sesquès (sajoupa)]

We need --switch because:
"The --switch flag allows you to replace the charm with an entirely different one.
The new charm's URL and revision are inferred as they would be when running a
deploy command."

and can't use --path because
"--switch and --path are mutually exclusive."

[Felipe Reyes (freyes)]

I want to switch a deployed application from the charmstore to a local branch and I'm getting this problem. here is a copy of my terminal

$ juju status glance-simplestreams-sync
Model Controller Cloud/Region Version SLA
keystone-v3 c2 stsstack/stsstack 2.4-beta1 unsupported

App Version Status Scale Charm Store Rev OS Notes
glance-simplestreams-sync unknown 1 glance-simplestreams-sync jujucharms 11 ubuntu

Unit Workload Agent Machine Public address Ports Message
glance-simplestreams-sync/0* unknown idle 2 10.1.2.3

Machine State DNS Inst id Series AZ Message
2 started 10.1.2.3 ea74622b-39d9-410d-9540-d57818948675 xenial nova ACTIVE

Relation provider Requirer Interface Type Message
keystone:identity-service glance-simplestreams-sync:identity-service keystone regular

$ juju upgrade-charm --force-units --switch local:xenial/glance-simplestreams-sync glance-simplestreams-syncERROR unknown schema for charm URL "local:xenial/glance-simplestreams-sync"
$ juju upgrade-charm --force-units --switch ./glance-simplestreams-sync glance-simplestreams-sync
ERROR cannot parse URL "./glance-simplestreams-sync": series name "." not valid
$ juju upgrade-charm --force-units --switch xenial/glance-simplestreams-sync glance-simplestreams-sync
ERROR already running latest charm "cs:glance-simplestreams-sync-11"

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

At least with Juju 2.3.5 you can do a charm upgrade from a charmstore charm to a local charm by doing:

  juju upgrade-charm --path <location> <app>

and switching from local to charmstore, or from one charmstore to another from the charmstore with

  juju upgrade-charm --switch <charm> <app>

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

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