Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [sr #107077] Setting up bzr+ssh on Savannah.

[Karl Fogel]

Ping.  Any reaction from Savannah admins to the proposal below?

Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
>Okay, so how about we:
>
>  1) Turn off sftp access.
>  2) Apply the diff at the end of this mail :-).
>  3) Update the developer instructions accordingly.
>
>>Configuration files are not under a VCS, but a good deal of
>>information can be found in the bzr repository for project
>>'administration'.
>
>Thanks.  (After we agree on the course of action, I'll have some changes
>to submit to administration/bzr.txt too.)
>
>Regarding commit emails: let's just continue using bzr-hookless-email
>for now.  It works, and right now the problem we're trying to solve is
>bzr+ssh:// access.  We can tackle other Bazaar issues afterwards.
>
>Below is the diff; please review.  If you like it, my next step will be
>to come up with the developer instructions so those currently using
>sftp:// can switch over.  (Naturally, we'll warn them first and set a
>flag date.)
>
>[[[
>Restore Bazaar bzr+ssh:// access, but this time without plugins.
>
>* /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh: Suppress logging in the modern way.
>  Add the '--no-plugins' option to the bzr serve command.
>
>* /etc/membersh-conf.pl: Set use_bzr to 1.
>]]]
>
>--- /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh 2010-03-17 15:38:57.000000000 -0400
>+++ /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh 2010-03-17 16:00:02.000000000 -0400
>@@ -151,12 +151,11 @@
> 
>     } elsif ($use_bzr and $ARGV[1] =~ m:$regexp_bzr:) {
> 
>-      # bzr wants to write a ~/.bzr.log
>-      # Tip: mkdir -m 755 /var/lib/bzr
>-      #      ln -s /dev/null /var/lib/bzr/.bzr.log
>-      $ENV{'HOME'} = '/var/lib/bzr';
>+      # bzr wants to write a ~/.bzr.log.  Suppress that (see
>+        # https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/106117 for more).
>+      $ENV{'BZR_LOG'} = '/dev/null';
>       # authorize 'bzr serve' in SSH tunnel mode
>-        exec($bin_bzr, 'serve', '--inet', '--directory='.$dir_bzr, 
>'--allow-writes')
>+        exec($bin_bzr, '--no-plugins', 'serve', '--inet', 
>'--directory='.$dir_bzr, '--allow-writes')
>           or die("Failed to exec '$bin_bzr serve --inet --directory=$dir_bzr 
> --allow-writes': $!");
> 
>     } elsif ($use_hg and $ARGV[1] =~ m:$regexp_hg:) {
>
>
>--- /etc/membersh-conf.pl      2010-03-17 14:31:11.000000000 -0400
>+++ /etc/membersh-conf.pl      2010-03-17 15:31:55.000000000 -0400
>@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
> # SFTP-accessible area (== local access) when said commit hook support
> # is eventually ready in bzr
> 
>-#$use_bzr = '1';
>+$use_bzr = '1';