Espanso: [macOS] Packages fail to install

[johnrichardrinehart]

I have followed the shruggie package installation instructions after following the espanso package installation instructions for macOS and experienced the following behavior:

➜  ~ espanso install shruggie
Updating package index...
Index updated!
authentication required but no callback set; class=Ssh (23)
➜  ~ espanso restart
Daemon started correctly!
➜  ~ espanso package list
➜  ~

I figured this authentication issue was related to SSH. So, I figured maybe I needed an SSH key loaded (my SSH keys are password-protected). But, ssh-add -l confirmed that my keys were already loaded by the agent. Also, the espanso hub only provides publicly-accessible code, so this shouldn't be an issue, it seems.

Note that I have repeated this for other packages, also. It's common across all packages that I tried.

[federico-terzi]

Hey @johnrichardrinehart.

Thank you very much for your report. It seems like the library espanso currently uses to clone packages ( libgit2) , does not deal well with encrypted credentials.

I'll look at the problem as soon as I can and get back to you when I find something.

Thanks for your help :)

[federico-terzi]

Hey @johnrichardrinehart,
Unfortunately, I tried to reproduce your issue many times without success, it always works fine on my machine, even with encrypted ssh credentials.
Could it be that perhaps you encountered a temporary error not due to espanso?

Cheers :)

[johnrichardrinehart]

Let me check in ~12 hours.

[johnrichardrinehart]

@federico-terzi Please leave this open for a bit (if it's been more than a week since I can return to this then feel free to close it). I'm in the middle of a big sprint at work.

[federico-terzi]

No problem @johnrichardrinehart, take all the time you need :)

[unn]

Ran into this myself. Following along.

[johnrichardrinehart]

@unn @federico-terzi I'm awful at making time for this. I'll do some tests within the next 30 hours.

[federico-terzi]

I'm sorry you both experienced issues guys. If we can't come up with a solution, I'll implement an alternative channel to install packages that doesn't depend on git, so that you can still install the packages.

Cheers :)

[unn]

No stress about timing from me, but thanks for being so on top of it.

[federico-terzi]

Hey guys,

I'm currently pushing version 0.5.3 out with an alternative package provider which should work in your case. You can now download a package with the --no-git option:

espanso install <package_name> --no-git

Let me know if it works for you.

Cheers :)

[unn]

Works as expected!

[federico-terzi]

Works as expected!

Great! :) I'll keep the issue open as it shouldn't happen with the default provider and someone may come up with a solution in the future. At least now we have a backup plan.

Cheers :)

[johnrichardrinehart]

@federico-terzi I forgot to post the results of my tests. I created a password-less RSA key, but 0.5.2 still failed to install packages with the same error code and message.

I've installed 0.5.3 and can confirm that --no-git works. Failure to use --no-git fails, though, still with the same error code and message

>  espanso install shruggie
Updating package index...
Index updated!
authentication required but no callback set; class=Ssh (23)

[federico-terzi]

Hey @johnrichardrinehart ,

Thank you for experimenting this further, at this point I can say quite confidently that password-protected RSA keys are not the cause of the issue (as it should be).

Cheers :)

[johnrichardrinehart]

@federico-terzi That seems true. Thanks for issuing this new flag.

Do you know the cause of the problem?

[federico-terzi]

@johnrichardrinehart Unfortunately, I don't. I tried in many ways to reproduce the issue without any success...

[johnrichardrinehart]

In the grand scheme of things that's just fine with me.

Thanks @federico-terzi .