I'd just like to chime in here. vnix$ darcs pull --dry Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': ^C Error in subprocess: Interrupt Error in subprocess: Interrupt withSignalsHandled: Interrupted! Exception thrown by an atexit registered action: exception :: SignalHandler.SignalException Exception thrown by an atexit registered action: exception :: SignalHandler.SignalException
vnix$ strace darcs pull --dry 2>/tmp/darcs.strace Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Pulling from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:repo/darcs/whatever"... Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': No remote changes to pull in! vnix$ darcs --version 1.0.9rc1 (release candidate 1) vnix$ uname -a Linux angarak 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 24 16:41:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux vnix$ cat /etc/debian_version 4.0 Inspection of the strace file reveals that darcs spawns a good number of ssh and scp processes in order to get the list of available patches and then copy them. The first few invocations are apparently even just to figure out which version of SSH is in use. It would definitely be nice if it could open a single remote shell and then chat with that as long as it wants to, but I don't know how hard that would be to implement. The workaround, of course, for ssh, is to use ssh-add: vnix$ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. vnix$ eval `ssh-agent` Agent pid 28621 vnix$ ssh-add Enter passphrase for /h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa: Identity added: /h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa (/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa) vnix$ darcs pull --dry Pulling from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:repo/darcs/whatever"... No remote changes to pull in! I think this properly belongs upstream, as it is clearly a fairly intimate detail of darcs, and not a packaging problem in Debian. (Perhaps some sort of wrapper could be put in place by Debian as a quick remedy, but the real problem is upstream.) /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
