Mercurial 1.5.4 released!

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jun 1 16:32:02 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:27 -0400, Harvey Chapman wrote:
> Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? My local and installed versions do not match.
> 
> harveybook:hg-stable hchapman$ hg pull
> pulling from http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable
> searching for changes
> no changes found
> harveybook:hg-stable hchapman$ hg archive -r stable ~/hgstable
> harveybook:hg-stable hchapman$ cd ~/hgstable/
> harveybook:hgstable hchapman$ sudo make local && ./hg version
> ....
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.5.4+2-5ce1949be1e3)
> 
> ....
> harveybook:hgstable hchapman$ sudo make clean all install && /usr/local/bin/hg version
> ....
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.5+20100307)
> ....

find / -type d -name "mercurial"

> I seem to recall having trouble before, too, installing 1.5.3 from source.
> 
> BTW the install target creates (and does not delete) files owned by
> root meaning that only root can completely remove the working
> directory.

That's what you get for running make all as root. Compilers don't care
what user you are.

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