[Expo-tech] unless Phil shows me that it's already there

[Philip Sargent (Gmail)]

Nothing quite so succinct is in the handbook - but the intended audience is
different. 

Nat & Becka are good examples of people who want to do the cave-surveying
nerding but not the programmer nerding.

This is a big gap in the handbook.

 

.         I have been concentrating on the numpty guides for uploading
photos, gpslogs, and downloading gps tracks and waypoints.

 

.         I have also been playing catch-up in the expert-nerding pages on
how to edit the handbook and use rsync, scp, sftp and whatnot because Tom
and Radost need that otherwise they tend to just guess and hope (which has
gone OK so far..). see
http://expo.survex.com/handbook/manual.html#usernamepassword and
http://expo.survex.com/handbook/computing/keyexchange.html 

 

But the most important bit is the bit in the middle!

which is http://expo.survex.com/handbook/caveentry.html and is mostly full
of "TO DO" paragraphs

 

What there is - and it needs editing I know - is here:

http://expo.survex.com/handbook/manual.html#manual

and

http://expo.survex.com/handbook/manual.html#editingthedata%20management%20sy
stem

 

 

Clearly that manual.html page needs to be expanded hugely and split up into
the 2 types of nerd: carve-nerd and programmer-nerd.

Or are there more types ?

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wookey [mailto:wookey at wookware.org] 
Sent: 29 July 2019 16:25
To: Nat D
Cc: Becka Lawson; Julian Todd; Philip Sargent
Subject: Re: Server down? And all.svx

 

On 2019-07-29 08:45 +0200, Rebecca Lawson wrote:

> Also Nat (cc-ed) was asking how to get copies of the loser and 

> drawings repositories. Is there an easy guide anywhere? Given my 

> versions don't work I don't think I could get it to work for him.

 

OK. here's my guide to how to do this. For Debian. If you are using Windows
then its 'whatever the equivalent steps on windows are'.

sudo apt install ssh git mercurial survex tunnelx ssh-keygen (passwordless
is fine, but add apassword if you like) email the .ssh/id_rsa.pub file it
generates to someone like me to add to people/machines authorised to use the
expo server <wait for confirmation, check that ssh expo at expo.survex.com
works for you - it'll ask that question about authenticating the server the
first time, and if you've set it up for the old server it'll complain that
the server has changed ID(!) and show a rune for reomving the old ID>

 

mkdir expo; cd expo

hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/~/loser

hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/~/expoweb

git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/~/drawings

 

That's it - you have all the data and can now commit, push, pull etc to your
hearts content.

 

I'll put that in the handbook somewhere unless Phil shows me that it's
already there somewhere.

 

Modern Windows (10?) does have a copy of ubuntu inside it, so you can just
do this in there ('Windows Subsystem for Linux'). Otherwise you get to do
the same process but somewhat obfuscated by a lot of confusing dialogs. (and
you want 'putty' instead of 'ssh')

 

Wookey

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