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diff --git a/doc/bugs/glacier_fails_to_copy.mdwn b/doc/bugs/glacier_fails_to_copy.mdwn index 4180695cf..3c6d95502 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/glacier_fails_to_copy.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/glacier_fails_to_copy.mdwn @@ -80,3 +80,6 @@ git-annex: copy: 230 failed # End of transcript or log. """]] + +> git-annex will now detect this misconfiguration and refuse to use it, so +> [[done]] --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/bugs/glacier_fails_to_copy/comment_2_b0614f2e7417af733f54c9ff569b11b0._comment b/doc/bugs/glacier_fails_to_copy/comment_2_b0614f2e7417af733f54c9ff569b11b0._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6813ff9fc --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/glacier_fails_to_copy/comment_2_b0614f2e7417af733f54c9ff569b11b0._comment @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 2""" + date="2015-02-06T17:30:50Z" + content=""" +Since someone also mentioned this problem on IRC (I don't know if it was +you), I am wondering if this is an easy mistake to make. I guess so; you +installed boto from Arch's packages and it included a /usr/bin/glacier.. +Same could happen if using pip to install boto, I think. + +I don't want to support multiple different glacier interface programs. The +eventual plan is to move glacier support into git-annex, using a haskell +library. + +The other concerning thing is that git-annex seems to have reported that +some of the transfers succeeded. It seems, very unfortunately, that +the glacier command from boto exits 0 when given unsupported +parameters. So, git-annex will think a transfer succeeded, at least some of +the time (sometimes gpg notices that the encrypted output is not all +consumed). + +I think that the best fix will be to make glacier-cli install a +"glacier-cli" program. Then git-annex can run that instead of "glacier" and +will be much less likely to run into namespace pollution. + +I have filed 2 bug reports: + +* [boto's glacier should exit nonzero after displaying usage](https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/2942) +* [glacier-cli should provide a glacier-cli command](https://github.com/basak/glacier-cli/issues/30) + +I have also put a really ugly hack into git-annex to detect when the wrong +glacier is installed, and refuse to use it. +"""]] |