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 2.7. I also downloaded Mercurial 1.7.5, but when I try to install it, it complains that I don't have bz2. I installed libbz2 using apt, and I'm not sure what else I need to do to get this working. Has anyone else had success in installing Mercurial?If anyone has tips, I'd appreciate it.Thanks!

I'll take a look at it once I'm fully awake ;)-Stefan

Thanks Stephan!I kept on at this today, but couldn't figure out what's wrong. If you (or anyone else) has ideas, that would be a great help!Thanks.

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 make install, and it worked.To clone a repository on another machine over ssh I had to chmod o+w /dev/tty to 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.

You could try apt-get install bz2 if you've got the APT add-on installed. Other than that all I can say is that I'm working on it but want to use Python 2.6 instead of 2.5. Unfortunately this still gives me some headaches, otherwise the Mercurial add-on would be available already.-Stefan

WhoCares? wrote:You could try apt-get install bz2 if you've got the APT add-on installed. Other than that all I can say is that I'm working on it but want to use Python 2.6 instead of 2.5. Unfortunately this still gives me some headaches, otherwise the Mercurial add-on would be available already.-StefanHi Stefan,Yeah, I did apt-get install bz2, which is why I'm so confused. I also downloaded the package descriptions for the sparc release of Sarge and installed everything that seemed relevant when I grepped for bz2, but to no avail. I don't know if it is a path issue or something?I didn't try Python 2.6, but I did try 2.7, and it came up with far more complaints than 2.5 did. I'm really confused why this is so hard; it should be trivial.Cheers!

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ddumont
Aspirant
Apr 08, 2011
Ahhhh... I don't think admin could read my home dir. I moved the .hg dir to /c/ and it's working! wooooo!
ddumont
Aspirant
Apr 09, 2011
Just adding a note here. I gave up on RhodeCode... the hgweb cgi worked much easier for me.
I don't think that this requires python 2.7... Honestly, I had forgotten I installed your 2.5 module. (oh well too late)

Mercurial install went smooth, so did python 2.7. I now have mercurial hosting for repos running over https on my readynas! (and auto-update on push)
fantastic! I'm 100% sure that you can figure all this out in less time than it took me... but if you have any questions about what I did, let me know, I'd be happy to help you add to your addon collection when you get the time to look at it.
Dewdman42
Virtuoso
Jun 07, 2012
Can you please provide some instructions for what you did to get mercurial working on your readyNas?
ddumont
Aspirant
Nov 12, 2012
Migrated to a new nas (pro4) and the install was a bit different this time around.

Notes to future people looking to do this:
apt-get install make <and gcc and stuff>
download python 2.7.x source packs, and latest mercurial.

build python, run the tests... then install it.
build mercurial, run the tests... then install it.

I satisfied some libraries that python warned me it might be a good idea to have.

once that's all set up you can pretty much follow the instructions for hgweb i linked above... one note, to pw protect the dir on the pro you need this apache conf:
ScriptAlias /hg /c/mercurial/hgweb.cgi
<Location /hg>
Include /etc/frontview/apache/Auth.conf
AuthName "Mercurial Repositories"
require user ddumont
</Location>

I put my mercurial stuff in a share (to make backing up easier). The include lets frontview do your user auth.
This conf file should be a link in or placed in /etc/frontview/apache/addons

storage:/c/mercurial# ls -la /etc/frontview/apache/addons/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin admin 4096 2012-11-12 13:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 2012-11-12 13:48 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 admin admin 31 2012-11-12 09:39 DDUMONT_HGWEB.conf -> /c/mercurial/.apache.hgweb.conf
ddumont
Aspirant
Nov 12, 2012
other notes...

newer versions of mercurial will need

[web]
allow_push = *

or something more restrictive if you like, in the server config. (hgweb.conf, or whatever you named it)
make sure the permissions are right on the files in the hg repo.

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