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Windows setup for mercurial-server
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WARNING: Windows is *not* a supported system. We've gotten this guide to work ok
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but the permissions are still broken in various ways to do with the underlying
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issues in Windows' permissions system. Unix-based systems, especially Debian and
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derivatives are still the main target. Patches to this guide to improve the
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support are welcome however!
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1) Install Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/) using the setup.exe from there. Tested
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against 1.7.12-1, may work with earlier versions. You'll need the base install
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plus the following additional packages:
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- docbook-xsl
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- libxslt
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- make
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- mercurial
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- openssh
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- python
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Note that even if you've already got them installed in Windows, Python and
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Mercurial still need to be installed in Cygwin.
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2) Open a new Cygwin terminal as Adminstrator (under Windows 7, that's right
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click on "Cygwin Terminal" start menu option and pick "Run as administrator")
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3) Run "ssh-host-config -y" and "cygrunsrv -S sshd" to get sshd running. We need
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this because there's no proper su in Cygwin (see
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http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.su for why this is)
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3) Goto the mercurial-server folder and "sh windows.sh setup-windows"
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4) Run "passwd hg" and set the password for the hg user (created by
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setup-windows), then "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" to add them to the Cygwin user
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database
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5) Run "sh windows.sh inituser-windows" to finish setting up the hg user
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5) Following the example from the main mercurial-server documentation (in that
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the server is called 'jeeves', your username is 'jay' and the client is called
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'spoon'), but with a few differences for Cygwin, we can now get you initial
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access. We assume that you've generated a key with PuTTYgen
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(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html) and then
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copied the contents of the "public key" box into a file called my-key. Run the
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following, altered as appropriate for your local system:
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  mkdir -p /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/jay
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  cp my-key /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/jay/spoon
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  chown hg /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/jay/spoon
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  ssh hg@localhost /usr/local/share/mercurial-server/refresh-auth
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The rest of the instructions in the normal mercurial-server documentation should
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now work. Note that although it's possible to add keys/access info to
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/etc/mercurial-server it's much easier to do things via the hgadmin repository,
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and doing things via /etc should probably be limited to only if you mess up the
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setup in hgadmin.
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