Hi Christian,
we've installed RB from the Git repository this morning. What we are
trying to do is to run two versions of RB on the same machine, RB
1.0.3 and RB 1.1a, sharing user and web server, but on two different
instances of the Python interpreter.
I suspect that this doesn't actually work, since RB 1.1a still claims
to be RB 1.0.3, although it might simply be the case that the message
hasn't been updated in the sources.
Is running two instances of RB possible in principle? If so, I would
appreciate any hints.
What I'm actually trying to do is to test RB on a CVS repository via
ssh.
Cheers,
Clemens
On 5 Oct 2009, at 09:08, Christian Hammond wrote:
Hi everyone,
One of the biggest problems we've noticed from new users is that
various repositories require SSH or HTTPS (in the case of
Subversion) access, and that we had no support for this, requiring
instead that users set up a dedicated read-only HTTP repository.
Tonight I've committed code to our Git repository that adds
experimental support for repositories backed by SSH, and Subversion
repositories backed by HTTPS. I'd like to have some volunteers with
such a setup test this before our 1.1 alpha 2 release.
If you're up for testing it, please install Review Board from Git
(on a non-production server!) and install a site there. If you're
using Windows, you're going to need to download the latest PyCrypto
from http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto first
and install it.
Once you have the site set up, go about creating your repository
entry. Note that for this to work, Review Board or our backends will
need to create and write to $HOME/.ssh and $HOME/.subversion (in the
case of SVN repositories) directories. It will attempt to create
these directories when it needs to for repositories using SSH/HTTPS,
and if it fails, it will give you instructions on what you need to do.
$HOME is the home directory of whatever user the web server is
running as. On Ubuntu, for instance, this will default to /var/www.
If you need to use a different directory, you will have to change
the user's home directory.
Note that it's a requirement to use the web server's user's home
directory. There will no doubt be some requests to make this
directory configurable, but this isn't an option. We support a
variety of repository tools and many of those call /usr/bin/ssh,
which will expect to use $HOME/.ssh. Likewise, pysvn expects
~/.subversion.
The sooner we know that these work, the sooner we can get 1.1 Alpha
2 out the door.
Thanks!
Christian
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