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Mykander

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Registered: 2012-03-30

Posts: 18

[SOLVED] AUR PMC Question

I'm trying to install Plex Media Center (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57512) and I'm curious as to what the package maintainer means by setting up git?  I've configured git with a name and e-mail address, but apparently that isn't enough.  Does anyone know what setup git requires above and beyond that?

Last edited by Mykander (2012-05-15 15:47:37)

George

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 165

Re: [SOLVED] AUR PMC Question

From looking at the github repo for plex it looks like the submodules are configured to be cloned using git over ssh which means that you *do* need a github account and you must link an ssh key to it (see http://help.github.com/linux-set-up-git/). Alternately you could edit the .gitmodules file to change the urls (I think you'd need to change the git@github.com: to git://github.com/).

I've not actually tried any of this as plex-linux is quite a large repo so don't want to clone it just to investigate, if this does solve your problems you may wish to suggest that the repo urls are fixed upstream or that the AUR package patches .gitmodules file.

Mykander

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Registered: 2012-03-30

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] AUR PMC Question

From looking at the github repo for plex it looks like the submodules are configured to be cloned using git over ssh which means that you *do* need a github account and you must link an ssh key to it (see http://help.github.com/linux-set-up-git/). Alternately you could edit the .gitmodules file to change the urls (I think you'd need to change the git@github.com: to git://github.com/).

I've not actually tried any of this as plex-linux is quite a large repo so don't want to clone it just to investigate, if this does solve your problems you may wish to suggest that the repo urls are fixed upstream or that the AUR package patches .gitmodules file.

Ah, gotcha!  Thanks for finding that out.  For the moment I just setup a github account since when I cloned it locally and modified the .gitmodules (plus deleted the extra pull from the pkgbuild) it still kept trying the ssh connection.  However if I stick with it after toying with Plex it'll be another project to see if I can teach myself why it's still doing that.