Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:

Jason Dagit wrote:

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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:

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One minor but important note: the hashed format is *not* readable with a darcs-1 program:

Sorry about that. The support for hashed repos existed long before 2.0 was released and so I misremembered the hashed support as appearing in a 1.x release.

It looks like you need at least 2.0 to read darcs 1 hashed repos.

Upgrading to a modern darcs client is advised and is only a 'cabal install darcs' away. I was under the impression that even debian stable has moved on to 2.x releases. How is it that you have a 1.0.9 release candidate client still?

Have you ever worked at a public institution? I recommend the experience... ;-)

Heh. I once was a junior sysadmin at a university. Yes, sometimes the software people used was old.

Seriously, the server is a debian etch (!) system. Also called "debian old-stable". Of course I have long since installed newer version of darcs, but since I am not root there I cannot put it into /usr/local, so I cannot completely rule out the possibility that other users still use the ancient /usr/bin/darcs and will now have problems when they darcs get.

Isn't debian etch a security liability at this point?

I do _not_ expect that this will lead to any serious trouble, as the latest stable darcs is just a small addition to the PATH away. Still, users should be warned that darcs-2.x is required.

Yes, sorry about that. At the time I was having some trouble finding authoritative info on it so I went with my memory, which was wrong. As for your path, I'm reasonably confident that if you put your local darcs at the front of your path then you're good to go. I know that works for local push, what I'm wondering about is push over ssh. It seems easy for you to test in this case. I know darcs finds the right executable by looking in PATH for 'darcs'. What I can't know is whether the server you're using lets you set PATH over ssh invocations that are non-interactive. It's entirely possible that has been disallowed by the sysadmins. And again, darcs-2.x is installed on the haskell.org machine in question. Jason