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diff --git a/standalone/linux/skel/README b/standalone/linux/skel/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2a321845f --- /dev/null +++ b/standalone/linux/skel/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +You can put this directory into your PATH, or symlink the programs in this +directory to anyplace already in your PATH, and use git-annex the same +as if you'd installed it using a package manager. + +Or, you can use the runshell script in this directory to start a shell +that is configured to use git-annex and the other utilities included in +this bundle, including git, gpg, rsync, ssh, etc. + +This should work on any Linux system of the appropriate architecture. +More or less. + + +How it works: This directory tree contains a lot of libraries and programs +that git-annex needs. But it's not a chroot. Instead, runshell sets a lot +of environment variables to cause files from here to be used, and a shim +around the binaries arranges for them to be run with the libraries in here. + +It shouldn't even be dependent on the host system's glibc libraries. +All that's needed is a kernel that supports the glibc included in this +bundle. |