From: Jeronimo Pellegrini <j_p@aleph0.info>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 35639@debbugs.gnu.org, Jeronimo Pellegrini <j_p@aleph0.info>
Subject: bug#35639: 27.0.50; tramp fails to use ssh on LibreCMC (no base64 encoder available, and not mentioned in tramp manual)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 20:01:45 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190508230145.GA1697@socrates.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1f03im0.fsf@gmx.de>
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
Hi,
> Jeronimo Pellegrini <j_p@aleph0.info> writes:
>
> Hi Jeronimo,
>
>> The rem-enc function should use a base64 encoding program on the
>> router (but LibreCMC and OpenWRT do not have it!).
>
> Tramp is busy to detect base64 or any other method which can be used for
> encoding/decoding. Pls set tramp-verbose to 6, and rerun the test (w/o
> an installed base64 on the remote machine). There will be a Tramp debug
> buffer.
Yes. That's where I first saw the ""Wrong method specification" message.
The buffer contents are here:
http://aleph0.info/jp/tramp-debug/tramp-debug-buffer.txt
>> reading lisp/net/tramp-sh.el I get the impression that tramp
>> actually *should* be able to encode/decode using busybox/awk,
>> which *is* available in LibreCMC (or did I get it wrong?).
>
> See variable tramp-remote-coding-commands, it contains all the different
> encoding/decoding commands Tramp tries to apply. awk is among them.
Before using tramp it has no content; after trying to connect,
tramp-remote-coding-commands is:
((b64 "base64" "base64 -d -i")
(b64 "base64" "base64 -d")
(b64 "openssl enc -base64" "openssl enc -d -base64")
(b64 "mimencode -b" "mimencode -u -b")
(b64 "mmencode -b" "mmencode -u -b")
(b64 "recode data..base64" "recode base64..data")
(b64 tramp-perl-encode-with-module tramp-perl-decode-with-module)
(b64 tramp-perl-encode tramp-perl-decode)
(b64 tramp-awk-encode tramp-awk-decode "test -c /dev/zero && od -v -t x1 -A n </dev/null && busybox awk '{}' </dev/null")
(uu "uuencode xxx" "uudecode -o /dev/stdout" "test -c /dev/stdout")
(uu "uuencode xxx" "uudecode -o -")
(uu "uuencode xxx" "uudecode -p")
(uu "uuencode xxx" tramp-uudecode)
(pack tramp-perl-pack tramp-perl-unpack))
Funny -- it lists awk as one method:
(b64 tramp-awk-encode tramp-awk-decode "test -c /dev/zero && od -v -t x1 -A n </dev/null && busybox awk '{}' </dev/null")
But awk was not used, because 'od' is also not available.
And none of the other binaries exist in LibreCMC or OpenWRT (not after a simple install, at least).
> The debug buffer you'll send shall show us, why it doesn't work.
Yes, it is here:
19:41:26.088945 tramp-sh-handle-file-local-copy (1) # File error: Wrong method specification for ‘ssh’
(this is the only occurrence of the string "error").
As I had mentioned in the first message, this is because line 3174 of
tramp.el was reached. It is the default case of a COND expression that has other two cases:
- (or (tramp-local-host-p v)
(tramp-method-out-of-band-p v size))
- (rem-enc ...)
What happened is that (rem-enc ...) failed (because tramp could not use
any encoding command), and fell through into the default action, which
is this error.
>> So, I'm not sure if this is a tramp bug (can't use awk to encode/decode
>> files in base64 format) or bug in its manual (doesn't mention that
>> a base64 binary is needed on the remote side).
>
> Tramp shall describe in its manual, what does it need for
> encoding/decoding. Agreed.
Right...
I will later in the week propose a patch to the manual, if that is OK.
J.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-08 16:25 bug#35639: 27.0.50; tramp fails to use ssh on LibreCMC (no base64 encoder available, and not mentioned in tramp manual) Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-08 18:29 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-08 23:01 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini [this message]
2019-05-09 7:35 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-09 10:19 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-09 12:05 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-09 12:37 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-09 12:45 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-09 19:52 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-09 20:02 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-09 20:11 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-10 8:40 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-10 9:07 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-10 9:17 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-10 9:49 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-10 10:18 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-10 14:45 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-11 1:57 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-12 8:43 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-17 19:00 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2019-05-18 7:46 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-11 13:14 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-14 1:50 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2019-10-14 7:59 ` Michael Albinus
2019-12-27 17:26 ` Michael Albinus
2019-12-27 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-30 13:12 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini
2020-01-01 9:28 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-01 15:39 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-01-09 12:58 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-11 13:07 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-01-11 13:23 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-16 20:09 ` Jeronimo Pellegrini via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-01-16 20:23 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-15 2:38 ` Richard Stallman
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