I'm not sure if this is supposed to be officially supported yet, but I was
able to get ssh:// to work on OS X:
1. `brew install libssh2`
2. from julia root dir: `cd deps && make configure-libgit2 VERBOSE=1`
3. copy the cmake command printed by above, and re-run it manually. For
some reason PKG_CONFIG_MODULE didn't detect libgit2 the first time
(discovered by trial-and-error, verified by `make distclean-libgit2` and
doing the process again).
it should look something like:
`cmake {HOME}/git/jl71/deps/srccache/libgit2/
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH={HOME}/git/jl71/usr -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="clang" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_ARG1="-m64 "
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="clang++" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ARG1="-m64 "
-DTHREADSAFE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release`
4. in julia root directory: `make clean && make`
5. start ssh-agent. in bash: "$ eval `ssh-agent`"
6. run something that causes ssh-agent to unlock the key, for example
regular command line git clone'ing a repository via ssh.
After those steps, the following works:
julia> Pkg.clone("ssh://g...@github.com/johnmyleswhite/ASCIIPlots.jl.git
<http://usern...@github.com/johnmyleswhite/ASCIIPlots.jl.git>")
If I neglect step 6, then the callback ("credentials_cb") gets called
indefinitely (noted via print debugging), so it seems that we are missing
some step to make ssh-agent unlock the key pair (which happens via system
prompt on OS X).
So: it looks like this is almost-supported, but we need to fix build issues
and teach the libgit2 wrapper to set up ssh-agent credentials correctly on
its own (at least on OS X). Presumably the situation is the same or better
on Linux. On Windows, building against libssh2 is explicitly disabled by
our Makefile.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Blake Johnson <blakejohnso...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there a way to still support git protocol (as opposed to https)
> packages with the new libgit2 based package system? I have a fair number of
> private packages on a local server, and it sure would be nice to be able to
> fetch those with SSH key authentication.
>
