git-annex/standalone/linux/skel
Joey Hess f2a54e3401
Android: Improve installation process when the user's login shell is not bash.
~/.profile works for bash, but not all other login shells.

This setting PATH is a minor convenience for users, particuarly since
typing on android is so much harder. The usual linux standalone bundle
just expects the user to know how to add it to PATH. I don't want this
code to grow special cases for every possible login shell. So displaying a
message to the presumably minority who don't use bash seems like the best
choice.

Longer term, I'd hope termux gets some way to set an environment variable
for all login shells. Systems using PAM can, via ~/.pam_environment. Or
alternatively, add a git-annex package to termux, even if just an installer
package. I'd rather spend time on either of those than on making this minor
thing support more login shells.

This commit was sponsored by mo on Patreon.
2019-05-23 13:06:31 -04:00
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git Assistant: Fix installation of menus, icons, etc when run from within runshell. 2018-04-25 17:58:00 -04:00
git-annex Assistant: Fix installation of menus, icons, etc when run from within runshell. 2018-04-25 17:58:00 -04:00
git-annex-shell Assistant: Fix installation of menus, icons, etc when run from within runshell. 2018-04-25 17:58:00 -04:00
git-annex-webapp Assistant: Fix installation of menus, icons, etc when run from within runshell. 2018-04-25 17:58:00 -04:00
git-receive-pack Assistant: Fix installation of menus, icons, etc when run from within runshell. 2018-04-25 17:58:00 -04:00
git-shell Assistant: Fix installation of menus, icons, etc when run from within runshell. 2018-04-25 17:58:00 -04:00
git-upload-pack Assistant: Fix installation of menus, icons, etc when run from within runshell. 2018-04-25 17:58:00 -04:00
README
runshell Android: Improve installation process when the user's login shell is not bash. 2019-05-23 13:06:31 -04:00

You can put this directory into your PATH, or symlink the programs in this
directory to anyplace already in your PATH, and use git-annex the same
as if you'd installed it using a package manager.

Or, you can use the runshell script in this directory to start a shell
that is configured to use git-annex and the other utilities included in
this bundle, including git, gpg, rsync, ssh, etc.

This should work on any Linux system of the appropriate architecture.
More or less.


How it works: This directory tree contains a lot of libraries and programs
that git-annex needs. But it's not a chroot. Instead, runshell sets a lot
of environment variables to cause files from here to be used, and a shim
around the binaries arranges for them to be run with the libraries in here.

It shouldn't even be dependent on the host system's glibc libraries.
All that's needed is a kernel that supports the glibc included in this
bundle.