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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-08-09 17:18:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-08-09 17:25:13 -0400 |
| commit | 315b05f2b717179dfcc8fece788dc6ad2f629796 (patch) | |
| tree | bbd292e518ef183aba4fb4a174221ffc76d78830 | |
| parent | c3f6b13014ae025a0837fb6f7a171aeae5dd2761 (diff) | |
document a PATH issue
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/Remote__39__s_git-annex-shell_not_detected/comment_2_35e5d9b427963fc7b9618eb522bd1273._comment | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install/NixOS.mdwn | 19 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/forum/Remote__39__s_git-annex-shell_not_detected/comment_2_35e5d9b427963fc7b9618eb522bd1273._comment b/doc/forum/Remote__39__s_git-annex-shell_not_detected/comment_2_35e5d9b427963fc7b9618eb522bd1273._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6e37bdb4e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Remote__39__s_git-annex-shell_not_detected/comment_2_35e5d9b427963fc7b9618eb522bd1273._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 2""" + date="2015-08-09T21:20:05Z" + content=""" +Another way to deal with the problem is to find the location where +git-annex-shell is installed on the remote system's Nix store, and +configure the git remote for that system to use that location, by setting +`remote.<name>.annex-shell` in its git configuration. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/install/NixOS.mdwn b/doc/install/NixOS.mdwn index e9730b285..23d7a9931 100644 --- a/doc/install/NixOS.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/NixOS.mdwn @@ -8,3 +8,22 @@ When including it in a NixOS configuration.nix file, the name of the reference t The build status of the package within Nix can be seen on the [Hydra Build Farm](http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/gitAndTools.gitAnnex). + +---- + +If git-annex is installed using Nix on a non-NixOS system, note that +git-annex-shell will not be available in PATH if git-annex tries to ssh +into the system and run it. This is because bash is typically built +without the flag `-DSSH_SOURCE_BASHRC`, and so the .bashrc that sets up the +PATH to include Nix-installed packages is not read. + +This is not a problem when using NixOS, because it does build bash with +that flag. Nor is this a problem when using git-annex locally. +But, if you're setting up a server that will be used as a git +remote, you'll need to find a way to get git-annex-shell +into the PATH, or otherwise deal with this. + +Another way to deal with the problem is to find the location where +git-annex-shell is installed on the remote system, and configure the git +remote for that system to use that location, by setting +`remote.<name>.annex-shell` in its git configuration. |