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Mercurial (hg) SCM on ReadyNAS?
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has successfully installed Mercurial on their ReadyNAS. I'm struggling because I can't seem to get a complete Python install. I downloaded and installed Python ...
Hi,
If anyone is interested, I managed to get this working, sort of, but it was ugly.
I installed Python 2.5.2 according to the instructions in this thread http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=35447. I then downloaded Mercurial v. 1.7.5. Since this version of Python inexplicably did not find my local install of bz2, I commented out the lines in the Mercurial setup.py that refer to importing bz2 (lines 39-43 in this version of Mercurial). I then did
To clone a repository on another machine over ssh I had to
I've not used Mercurial enough to know what is going to happen because Python can't find bz2, but if I find out, I'll try to remember to report it here.
If anyone comes up with a better way of doing this, I'd been keen to find out.
If anyone is interested, I managed to get this working, sort of, but it was ugly.
I installed Python 2.5.2 according to the instructions in this thread http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=35447. I then downloaded Mercurial v. 1.7.5. Since this version of Python inexplicably did not find my local install of bz2, I commented out the lines in the Mercurial setup.py that refer to importing bz2 (lines 39-43 in this version of Mercurial). I then did
make install, and it worked.
To clone a repository on another machine over ssh I had to
chmod o+w /dev/ttyto allow outbound ssh. I tried pull, up and serve, and they all seem to be working.
I've not used Mercurial enough to know what is going to happen because Python can't find bz2, but if I find out, I'll try to remember to report it here.
If anyone comes up with a better way of doing this, I'd been keen to find out.
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