Error 500 when cloning GraphViz

[clauded]

Environment

• VM on OVH
• Operating System: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
• meza version hash: 4b8b61e

Issue details

When cloning mediawiki/graph-viz, I get an error 500. This is a similar issue to #1167 (a redirection problem from gerrit).

Since this module must be installed with composer, is it possible to update meza-deploy to use a git repository (I would use the github mirror) as a composer source for installation? For example:

  - name: GraphViz
    composer: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-GraphViz.git
    version: REL1_31

[jamesmontalvo3]

I don't think this is the same as #1167. The problem with VE was that it had a .gitmodules file [1] that pointed to a location in Gerrit, and the URL structure of Gerrit changed. They made the fix to master branch of VE, but didn't backport it to older versions (until we asked for the backport).

GraphViz does not have a .gitmodules file. Also it's composer.json file doesn't appear to be requiring anything strange. Can you send exactly what you've put in your MezaLocalExtensions.yml when you got errors? I don't think the composer: https://github.com/... will work. Also, using version: REL1_31 is probably not what you want with Composer. Composer generally is supposed to be used with released versions instead of branches. You can use branches, but it's rarely what you want. So you probably want to specify version: ~2.0 or version: 3.1.0 or something like that. You can see available versions here [2] and read about Composer version constraints here [3].

[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-VisualEditor/blob/master/.gitmodules#L3 [2] https://packagist.org/packages/mediawiki/graph-viz [3] https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/versions.md

[clauded]

It's the same problem as #1167. The error generated is:

fatal: unable to access 'https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/GraphViz.git/': The requested URL returned error: 500

The /r/p path leads to a redirection. This is what I tried:

  - name: GraphViz
    composer: mediawiki/graph-viz
    version: "^3.1"

[jamesmontalvo3]

Hmm...okay I'm guessing the problem doesn't reside in the code itself, but in how Packagist is setup. Probably the package owner needs to go into Packagist and update this URL:

Are you on the MediaWiki mailing lists [1]? You'll probably get the fastest response by emailing wikitech-l.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

[clauded]

I'm not on the mailing list. Besides, I don't know what change I could ask for.