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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-16 15:20:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-16 15:42:51 -0400 |
| commit | 21d8cff6adf42043acaf90537e83c0ab5b357117 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f8ff7939b1045a8b5fda993b6fd85768c37d2dc /doc/bugs/The_assistant_hangs_forever.mdwn | |
| parent | 9589cada839ebc0b6edfb9b319d5d6e12844a536 (diff) | |
Fall back to internal url downloader when built without curl.
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/The_assistant_hangs_forever.mdwn b/doc/bugs/The_assistant_hangs_forever.mdwn index 604e957c2..be8968ff8 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/The_assistant_hangs_forever.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/The_assistant_hangs_forever.mdwn @@ -30,3 +30,17 @@ I have tried other available version on Arch linux (AUR git-annex-bin, AUR git-a At that stage, what I would like to be able is to try to figure out what is going on using the log file. Thanks +> This could happen when using the amd64 standalone build, because I +> forgot to install curl into its chroot, so it was not included in the +> bundle. If the host system also lacked curl, or something prevented +> curl from working, it would fail like this. +> +> I've included curl into the amd64 standalone build. I've also made the +> assistant fall back to using a built-in http client if it is built +> without curl. +> +> None of which helps at all with the Arch git-annex-bin hack, since +> that binary will be built with a working curl (when my amd64 standalone +> builder builds it), and then installed onto a system, that, +> apparently, has a broken curl. Which is one of many reasons I cannot +> support that hack. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |