On 2014-07-11 at 14:12:14 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: [...]
heh, fat chance. Travis is unable to check out the repository from github, because the submodule URL points to something invalid:
Cloning into 'libraries/Cabal'... fatal: remote error: ghc/packages/Cabal is not a valid repository name Email support@github.com for help Clone of 'git://github.com/ghc/packages/Cabal.git' into submodule path 'libraries/Cabal' failed
and clearly this happens before we get a chance to change them.
So travis does a recursive clone by default? So that we can't even easily inject https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git/Submodules#Alte... ? If I get the docs right, you should be able to disable that and manually clone the submodules: http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/build-configuration/#Git-Submodules
Maybe it is finally time to re-think the directory layout on git.haskell.org to not use / and get rid of this problem for once and all. (Maybe with symlinks on git.haskell.org the old URLs can just continue to work.)
TBH, I don't like the idea of symlinks, as they would break the assumption in the server-side scripting that a repo is only accessible via a single path, which I'm sure would cause all sorts of subtle issues and confusing situations when you forget about that. Cheers, hvr