Yes, I will look at this this week.  I'm using a clean copy of galaxy-dist and will apply against that to see how it works.  Thanks a bunch Dave B for doing this!

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:42 AM, John Chilton <jmchilton@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Ryan,

It looks like Dave B. has come to rescue with an egg and a patch that
implements this:

https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/pull-request/626/upgrade-mercurial-egg-to-324

It probably won't be back-ported to the forthcoming January release
but I would suspect the raw patch
(https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/galaxy/galaxy-central/diff/davebgx/galaxy-central:625bf1fd88ee..63d901ca0e6e)
will apply cleanly against the last few releases. If you have some
time and want to apply it to your release and let us know if it fixes
your problems that would probably help the pull request along.

-John

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Ryan G <ngsbioinformatics@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I think I found the root cause...its because the Galaxy egg for
> mercurial is using an older version of Mercurial that has this known bug.
> The only real fix is to upgrade the Galaxy egg to mercurial 3.x.
>
> The only way I know of to test this is to build a new Galaxy egg which I'm
> not familiar with.  But as I understand it the new Mercurial version will
> also break Galaxy.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> unfortunately not (yet). But I'm really surprised you are getting this
>> error. It working for me and in our docker containers and other
>> deployments. Can we try to detect the root cause of this error? Do you
>> have conflicting mercurial version.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bjoern
>>
>> > Thanks.  Is there an alternative way I can install tools from the
>> > Toolshed?  This problem pretty much renders the toolshed unusable for
>> > me...
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:14 AM, John Chilton <jmchilton@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> It is certainly the case that Galaxy should be using the latest
>> >> version of mercurial given a number of high profile bugs with older
>> >> versions. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to just drop the new
>> >> version it - there are some API changes that prevent Galaxy from
>> >> loading when doing this and the number of people who can add new eggs
>> >> to Galaxy is low.
>> >>
>> >> I have created a Trello card to track this issue:
>> >>
>> >> https://trello.com/c/9A9uIav0
>> >>
>> >> Let us know if you happen to find a workaround for this issue.
>> >>
>> >> -John
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Ryan G <ngsbioinformatics@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> I've been trying to track down why I can't get anything from the
>> >>> toolshed
>> >>> installed and finally have it figured out.
>> >>>
>> >>> Whenever I tried to install anything I always got an Error with no
>> >>> explanation of what the error was.  After enabling Debug messages into
>> >> the
>> >>> log file, I see the error is:
>> >>>
>> >>> tool_shed.util.hg_util DEBUG 2014-12-22 14:47:48,910 Error cloning
>> >>> repository: httpsconnection instance has no attribute '_set_hostport'
>> >>>
>> >>> I googled around and found out this is a known bug/issue with older
>> >> version
>> >>> of Mercurial and was fixed in v3.
>> >>>
>> >>> I added a line to hg_util.py to see where it picks up hg.  Its using
>> >> version
>> >>> 2.2.3.  Indeed, one of the eggs downloaded by Galaxy is
>> >>> mercurial-2.2.3.
>> >>>
>> >>> I have the newest version of mercurial installed in my site-packages
>> >> folder
>> >>> but I guess that's not what galaxy wants.  So my question is, how do I
>> >> get
>> >>> Galaxy to use the latest version of Mercurial?  And, Why did it
>> >>> download
>> >> an
>> >>> older version?
>> >>>
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