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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah.
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Karl Fogel |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah. |
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Sun, 16 May 2010 22:55:57 -0400 |
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Ping; any help on the questions below appreciated. Thanks,
-Karl
Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
>Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:
>>Also: Karl, you'll want to test the creation of new bzr repositories
>>from the Savane interface in the new environment.
>
>Sure. What is this interface? I've never used it AFAIK. (Is it a web
>interface, or something else?)
>
>Current status: I'm testing bzr+ssh:// on vcs-noshell, and some things
>work, but not everything works yet. Details follow, ending with a
>question:
>
>I've done the following:
>
> * Tar'd up /srv/bzr on sftp, copied it over to vcs-noshell, and
> unpacked it into /srv/bzr there. (I didn't worry about the small
> chance that a repository could have inconsistent state when I tar
> it up, since this is just for testing right now anyway.)
>
> * Installed bazaar on vcs-noshell:
>
> First I tried
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install bzr
>
> But it turns out the latest bzr in lenny is 1.5 and that's what
> we're running already. So as a temporary solution, I built bzr
> 2.1.0 from source to run in-place (/root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/bzr).
> In the long run we'll need a better solution, of course. At
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/bzr, the latest is
> 1.16.1, which is a bit behind. Shall I see if we can get 2.1.0
> backported?
>
> Anyway, to get it to build from source I had to do the following:
>
> # apt-get install python-pyrex
> # apt-get install python-paramiko
> # apt-get install bzrtools
> # apt-get install gcc
> # apt-get install python-dev
> # apt-get install libc6-dev
> # apt-get install zlibc
> # apt-get install zlib1g-dev
> # cd ~root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/
> # make (equivalent to 'python setup.py build', I believe)
>
> * I added this to /etc/membersh-conf.pl on vcs-noshell:
>
> $use_bzr = 1;
> $bin_bzr = "/root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/bzr";
>
> * Also on vcs-noshell, applied a patch to /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh
> to disable plugins and suppress writing of ~/.bzr.log. See
> lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2010-03/msg00027.html
> for that patch. I also tweaked $regexp_bzr at the top of that
> file:
>
> our $regexp_bzr = '^(bzr|/root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/bzr) serve \
> --inet --directory=/ --allow-writes$';
>
>On my client machine, I can do this:
>
> $ BZR_REMOTE_PATH=/root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/bzr \
> bzr ls bzr+ssh://address@hidden/srv/bzr/emacs/trunk
>
>to get a listing of the Emacs bzr branches. Note the hostname is "git"
>for now, because bzr.sv.gnu.org doesn't point to vcs-noshell yet.
>
>However, I cannot do the same command with user "kfogel":
>
> $ BZR_REMOTE_PATH=/root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/bzr \
> bzr ls bzr+ssh://address@hidden/srv/bzr/emacs/trunk
>
>nor with "kfogel" and the proper path:
>
> $ BZR_REMOTE_PATH=/root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/bzr \
> bzr ls bzr+ssh://address@hidden/emacs/trunk
>
>...because both get this error:
>
> Failed to exec '/root/kfogel/bzr-2.1.0/bzr --no-plugins serve \
> --inet --directory=/srv/bzr --allow-writes': \
> Permission denied at /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh line 157.
> bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. \
> Please check connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if \
> problems persist.
>
>And that's what I'm debugging right now. Some notes:
>
>In the first case (the successful one using "root"), we presumably never
>even invoke /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh on the server, because "root" is
>not affected by the restricted shell system. Hence the need for
>"/srv/bzr" in the original URL, since the "--directory=/srv/bzr" option
>that /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh adds to 'bzr serve' never happens.
>
>Does that sound correct?
>
>In the second case, with user "kfogel", I'm not sure why the
>custom-built bzr is failing to exec(). The file
>/etc/ssh/authorized_keys/kfogel exists and has the expected content.
>And I can log into the server and run the exact same 'bzr serve' command
>on the command line (as root) just fine.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>-Karl
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Karl Fogel, 2010/05/04
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Sylvain Beucler, 2010/05/04
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Karl Fogel, 2010/05/04
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Karl Fogel, 2010/05/05
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Paul Smith, 2010/05/05
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Sylvain Beucler, 2010/05/05
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Karl Fogel, 2010/05/11
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah.,
Karl Fogel <=
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Karl Fogel, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Robert Collins, 2010/05/16
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Jason Earl, 2010/05/05
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Robert Collins, 2010/05/05
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Karl Berry, 2010/05/05
- Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah., Sylvain Beucler, 2010/05/06