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  • [gentoo-user] Layman adding git over ssh only repository

    From Alexander Puchmayr@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 15 09:20:01 2022
    Hi there,

    I tried to add a repository which is only reachable via git over ssh; no
    access via git port (9418 according to /etc/services) or http(s). Only ssh connections with public key are accepted.

    I tried
    Layman -o ssh://git@myserver/path/to/repo.git -f -a myrepo, but failed with "invalid url".
    Then I tried the same with "git://git@..." , also failed.

    It seems like it does not accept the url scheme and refusing to connect at
    all. Next thing I tried is to create a repository.xml and put it to the local file system:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE repositories SYSTEM "/dtd/repositories.dtd">
    <repositories xmlns="" version="1.0">
    <repo quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
    <name>my-repo</name>
    <description lang="en">My overlay</description>
    <owner type="person">
    <email>alexander.puchmayr#my-email.com</email>
    <name>Alexander Puchmayr></name>
    </owner>
    </repo>
    <source type="git">git://myserver/path/to/repo.git</source>
    </repositories>

    Layman -o repository.xml -f -a myrepo now tries to fetch it via the git port (9418), failing with timeout.

    Replacing source type="git" with "ssh", "ssh+git", "git+ssh" also did not succeed.

    I'm pretty sure not being the first one trying this, but I cannot find any useful information how to do this. So how can I achieve this?

    Thanks
    Alex

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  • From Nuno Silva@21:1/5 to Alexander Puchmayr on Mon Aug 15 11:10:01 2022
    On 2022-08-15, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:

    Hi there,

    I tried to add a repository which is only reachable via git over ssh; no access via git port (9418 according to /etc/services) or http(s). Only ssh connections with public key are accepted.

    I tried
    Layman -o ssh://git@myserver/path/to/repo.git -f -a myrepo, but failed with "invalid url".
    Then I tried the same with "git://git@..." , also failed.

    It seems like it does not accept the url scheme and refusing to connect at all. Next thing I tried is to create a repository.xml and put it to the local file system:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE repositories SYSTEM "/dtd/repositories.dtd">
    <repositories xmlns="" version="1.0">
    <repo quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
    <name>my-repo</name>
    <description lang="en">My overlay</description>
    <owner type="person">
    <email>alexander.puchmayr#my-email.com</email>
    <name>Alexander Puchmayr></name>
    </owner>
    </repo>
    <source type="git">git://myserver/path/to/repo.git</source> </repositories>

    Layman -o repository.xml -f -a myrepo now tries to fetch it via the git port (9418), failing with timeout.

    Replacing source type="git" with "ssh", "ssh+git", "git+ssh" also did not succeed.

    I'm pretty sure not being the first one trying this, but I cannot find any useful information how to do this. So how can I achieve this?

    This is not something I have tried myself, but a quick glance at the
    online manual page for layman shows a git+ssh example (under "Overlay
    lists format") - the source type is still "git", "git+ssh" is only in
    the protocol/scheme part of the URL, so perhaps it needs to be something
    like:

    <source type="git">git+ssh://myserver/path/to/repo.git</source>

    --
    (Apologies if this is not helpful,)
    Nuno Silva

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