I'm trying to get propellor running, and for now, I'd prefer to not use a central git repo, according to what I have read

propellor --spin host

should do just that: not use git.

So I have cabal installed propellor locally, and in addition cloned

git clone git://propellor.branchable.com/ .propellor

in my $HOME

My local machine (from where I run propellor) runs debian testing, the machine I want to spin to: softland, debian unstable+experimental, ie. unstable in general + all things ghc from experimental, to get ghc 7.8.4 (but not any more than that from experimental).

was not sure, what the right propellor config would be in that case:

& os (System (Debian Experimental) "amd64") which I have used, or

& os (System (Debian Unstable) "amd64") because in general I want Unstable

First thing I notice, when running

$ propellor --spin softland

propellor nevertheless tries to git push (but fails, obviously, somewhere down in propellors output):

... Building propellor-2.2.1... Preprocessing library propellor-2.2.1... In-place registering propellor-2.2.1... Preprocessing executable 'propellor' for propellor-2.2.1... Preprocessing executable 'propellor-config' for propellor-2.2.1... Propellor build ... done [master 8ca2715] propellor spin Git commit ... done Counting objects: 10, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done. Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 913 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 10 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: you are not allowed to change config.hs To git://propellor.branchable.com/ ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'git://propellor.branchable.com/' Push to central git repository ... failed Stop listening request sent. Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid InRelease Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental InRelease Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,876 B] ...

Note in particular the lines:

To git://propellor.branchable.com/ ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'git://propellor.branchable.com/' Push to central git repository ... failed

Shouldn't propellor be completely quiet about git / not try to push at all?

OK, never mind, let's see what's next: some long output, propellor finally fails, I assume it's because of my sid+experimental configuration?

Stop listening request sent. Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid InRelease Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental InRelease Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,876 B] Get:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:3 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:4 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:5 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,876 B] Get:6 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:7 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/main Sources [7,633 kB] Get:8 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/contrib Sources [57.1 kB] Get:9 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/non-free Sources [105 kB] Get:10 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/main Sources/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:11 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:12 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:13 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:14 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:15 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get:16 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Fetched 7,897 kB in 6s (1,169 kB/s) Reading package lists... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping gnupg, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping ghc, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping cabal-install, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping libghc-async-dev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libghc-missingh-dev : Depends: libghc-hunit-dev-1.2.5.2-6e02e Depends: libghc-array-dev-0.4.0.1-3b784 Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-8aa5d Depends: libghc-containers-dev-0.5.0.0-ab1da Depends: libghc-directory-dev-1.2.0.1-91a78 Depends: libghc-filepath-dev-1.3.0.1-b12cb Depends: libghc-hslogger-dev-1.2.1-028cc Depends: libghc-mtl-dev-2.1.2-94c72 Depends: libghc-network-dev-2.4.1.2-040ce Depends: libghc-old-locale-dev-1.0.0.5-6729c Depends: libghc-old-time-dev-1.1.0.1-2f8ea Depends: libghc-parsec-dev-3.1.3-6c6e2 Depends: libghc-process-dev-1.1.0.2-76e05 Depends: libghc-random-dev-1.0.1.1-43fdc Depends: libghc-regex-compat-dev-0.95.1-121c7 Depends: libghc-time-dev-1.4.0.1-10dc4 Depends: libghc-unix-dev-2.6.0.1-4f219 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libghc-hslogger-dev : Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-8aa5d Depends: libghc-containers-dev-0.5.0.0-ab1da Depends: libghc-directory-dev-1.2.0.1-91a78 Depends: libghc-mtl-dev-2.1.2-94c72 Depends: libghc-network-dev-2.4.1.2-040ce Depends: libghc-old-locale-dev-1.0.0.5-6729c Depends: libghc-process-dev-1.1.0.2-76e05 Depends: libghc-time-dev-1.4.0.1-10dc4 Depends: libghc-unix-dev-2.6.0.1-4f219 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libghc-unix-compat-dev : Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-8aa5d Depends: libghc-unix-dev-2.6.0.1-4f219 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping libghc-ansi-terminal-dev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libghc-ifelse-dev : Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-8aa5d E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping libghc-network-dev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping libghc-quickcheck2-dev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Skipping libghc-mtl-dev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libghc-monadcatchio-transformers-dev : Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-8aa5d Depends: libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev-0.1.1.4-255a3 Depends: libghc-monads-tf-dev-0.1.0.2-731f0 Depends: libghc-transformers-dev-0.3.0.0-ff2bb E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org Skipping download: Local and remote files match. Resolving dependencies... All the requested packages are already installed: Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway. Resolving dependencies... Configuring propellor-2.2.1... Building propellor-2.2.1... Preprocessing library propellor-2.2.1... In-place registering propellor-2.2.1... Preprocessing executable 'propellor' for propellor-2.2.1... Preprocessing excaecutable 'propellor-bal: can't find source for configconf in src ig' for propellor-2.2.1... propellor: user error (ssh ["-o","ControlPath=/home/rx/.ssh/propellor/softland.sock","-o","ControlMaster=auto","-o","ControlPersist=yes","root@softland","sh -c 'if [ ! -d /usr/local/propellor/.git ] ; then (if ! git --version >/dev/null; then apt-get update && apt-get --no-install-recommends --no-upgrade -y install git; fi && echo STATUSNeedGitClone) || echo STATUSNeedPrecompiled ; else cd /usr/local/propellor && if ! test -x ./propellor; then ( apt-get update ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install gnupg ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install ghc ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install cabal-install ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-async-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-missingh-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-hslogger-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-unix-compat-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-ansi-terminal-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-ifelse-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-network-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-quickcheck2-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-mtl-dev ; apt-get --no-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y install libghc-monadcatchio-transformers-dev ; cabal update ; cabal install --only-dependencies ) || true && cabal configure && cabal build && ln -sf dist/build/propellor-config/propellor-config propellor; fi && ./propellor --boot softland ; fi'"] exited 1) rx@varenne ~/work/propellor $

I should add, that I have tried to --spin to another machine, and ... finally got that working:

, host "laptop" & os (System (Debian Testing) "amd64")

Not sure, if I need more than that, want to keep it to the minimum first, anyway:

propellor --spin laptop

this works, yeah - sorry for the noise, above - but still I get

Git commit ... done To git://propellor.branchable.com/ ! [rejected] master -> master (fetch first) error: failed to push some refs to 'git://propellor.branchable.com/' hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing hint: to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes hint: (e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again. hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details. Push to central git repository ... failed

Possible to turn off these git push attempts?

Thanks, Andreas