[opam-devel] can a repository URL point to a sub-directory of a git repo

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

> that should be asdf/opam/{opam,url,descr}
> 
> It still doesn't work:
> 
> $ opam repository add asdf-dev git at github.com:agarwal/asdf.git
> asdf-dev   Fetching git at github.com:agarwal/asdf.git
> Updating ~/.opam/repo/compiler-index ...
> Updating ~/.opam/compilers/ ...
> Updating ~/.opam/repo/package-index ...
> Updating ~/.opam/packages/ ...
> Updating the cache of metadata (~/.opam/state.cache) ...
> 
> $ opam info asdf
> [ERROR] No packages found.
> '/Users/ashish/usr/ocaml/4.01.0/bin/opam info asdf' failed.

Ha I see, the package does not exist yet. So no, this is not supported. See https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/941

Thomas

> 
> 
> Also, with this, how does opam know what version to assign the package?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com> wrote:
> During development of a repository foo, I often like to create within that repo an opam-repo. I'll have something like this:
> 
> foo/opam-repo/packages/foo/foo.master
> 
> With a local copy of foo, I can now do:
> 
> opam repository add foo-dev foo/opam-repo
> 
> which is nice. It let's me keep the opam package description up-to-date during rapid development of foo. However, now I'm wondering if I can refer to this sub-directory with a git URL, something like the following:
> 
> opam repository add foo-dev git at github.com:agarwal/foo/opam-repo
> 
> The above URL isn't valid however. Is there a way to accomplish this?
> 
> The workaround is easy enough. I can define this package in a dedicated git repository, like the main opam-repository. However, it is nice to keep the dev version of an opam package within the related repo.
> 

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