[Help-gnu-arch] Need help on importing first tree. Following the tutorial only makes me import and empty dir.

[Sven Luther]

Hello,

I am trying to learn how to use arch, and i am faced with a problem
following the tutorial.

I have followed the tutorial, but it seems that the files don't get
added to the archive, and only an empty file is commited.

For information, i do :

 tla my-id "Sven Luther <address@hidden>"
 tla make-archive address@hidden ~/debian/ARCH/parted
 tla my-default-archive address@hidden
 tla archive-setup debian--mainline--1.0
 => move into initial import tree
 tla init-tree debian--mainline--1.0
 => tla inventory --names --source shows me all the files.
 vi `tla make-log` => and adds initial import Summary.
 tla import
 => ERROR :
   These files would be source but lack inventory ids (`tla add' or a
   tagline perhaps?):

   debian
   parted_1.6.6.orig.tar.gz

   * imported address@hidden/debian--mainline--1.0
 tla add debian
 tla add parted_1.6.6.orig.tar.gz
 tla import
   import: tree already has patch log entries for version
   tree: /home/luther/debian/parted/repo
   version: address@hidden/address@hidden:~/debian/parted/repo$ 

But when trying to tla get from elsewhere, i get only an empty dir with
an {arch} directory in it, and sure enough :

 cd ~/debian/ARCH/parted/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/base-0
 tar tzvf debian--mainline--1.0--base-0.src.tar.gz
   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/
   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/
   -rw-r--r-- luther/luther    52 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/.arch-project-tree
   -rw-r--r-- luther/luther  6803 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/=tagging-method
   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/
   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/
   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/
   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/address@hidden/
   drwxr-xr-x luther/luther     0 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/
   -rw-r--r-- luther/luther   303 2004-01-26 16:30:02 
debian--mainline--1.0--base-0/{arch}/debian/debian--mainline/debian--mainline--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/base-0

Not a single mention of my files.

I did this two times, following the instructions to the letter, at least
this seems so to me, but without luck.

Anyone has an idea of what is going on here ? Did i miss something in
the tutorial, or is the tutorial missing a piece of information, or is
maybe the arch version is have simply broken (todays debian/sid's
version).

Please CC me, as i am not subscribed to the list.

Friendly,

Sven Luther