I'm not able to reproduce this on my machine...can you run it with the --debug flag to get more detailed output? Also make sure that you have 'python2' installed and are using the hgsvn-0.1.8-2 package that was created for the python rebuild.

Hello,
I do have the python2 and new hgsvn :
yaourt -Qs hgsvn
community/hgsvn 0.1.8-2 [0.46 M]
A set of scripts to work locally on Subversion checkouts using Mercurial
[marek@beruska cc]$ yaourt -Qs python2
extra/python2 2.7-3 [66.56 M]
A high-level scripting language


This is my output w/ --debug:

$ hgimportsvn --debug -v svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/
SVN branch was copied from '/trunk/extragear/libs/kipi-plugins' at rev 816153
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hgimportsvn", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('hgsvn==0.1.8', 'console_scripts', 'hgimportsvn')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/run/hgimportsvn.py", line 143, in main
run_hg(["init"])
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/common.py", line 224, in run_hg
bulk_args=bulk_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/common.py", line 169, in run_command
return _run_raw_command(cmd, map(_transform_arg, args), fail_if_stderr)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/common.py", line 137, in _run_raw_command
% (cmd_string, "".join(traceback.format_exception_only(etype, value))))
hgsvn.errors.ExternalCommandFailed: Failed running external program: hg '--encoding' 'utf-8' 'init'
Error: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory


I do have some problems with svn on this network, but this seems more like program crash.

Thank you, Marek

mmm: Just to be sure... Is hg installed?

elasticdog: Shouldn't "hg" be a dependency?

Good point Lukas, yes, I'm stupid enough, hg is was not installed :P Actually, I don't know what package provides that functionality in Arch - there's no just hg package.

Yep, I think it should be a dependency for ppl like me, I have no idea about hg, just needed something other than svn to try to get a svn repo.

So thanks for asking right questions ;)

mmm: Ye, sorry it's the "mercurial" package. Just `pacman -S mercurial`.

elasticdog: So maybe add "mercurial" (and maybe "svn" as well) as deps?

after having mercurial installed, hgsvn seems to work ok. But anyway doesn't behave very nicely, on ctrl^c it spills out:
$ hgimportsvn svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/
SVN branch was copied from '/trunk/extragear/libs/kipi-plugins' at rev 816153
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hgimportsvn", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('hgsvn==0.1.8', 'console_scripts', 'hgimportsvn')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/run/hgimportsvn.py", line 184, in main
svn_checkout(target_svn_url, checkout_dir, svn_rev)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/svnclient.py", line 163, in svn_checkout
return run_svn(svn_checkout_args + args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/common.py", line 236, in run_svn
args=args, bulk_args=bulk_args, fail_if_stderr=fail_if_stderr)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/common.py", line 169, in run_command
return _run_raw_command(cmd, map(_transform_arg, args), fail_if_stderr)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgsvn/common.py", line 138, in _run_raw_command
out, err = pipe.communicate()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 740, in communicate
return self._communicate(input)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1256, in _communicate
stdout, stderr = self._communicate_with_poll(input)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1310, in _communicate_with_poll
ready = poller.poll()
KeyboardInterrupt


I guess this is correct, but doesn't look very clean and lean.

This is correct. If you don't like it, report it upstream :p