Re: tramp (2.2.6-pre); executable-find of nil

[Dave Abrahams]

Thanks, Michael; I've applied the patch locally, and my little test
shows that it appears to be working.

on Mon Nov 19 2012, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus-AT-gmx.de> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
>>   copy-file("/scpc:cone.local:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf"
>> "/sudo:address@hidden:/opt/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf"
>> nil t)
>
> Wow. I haven't tried this constellation yet. Due to the first parameter,
> Tramp believes it could apply an out-of-band copy. This doesn't work,
> because sudo isn't out-of-band ...
>
> The following patch ought to fix it (modulo changed line numbers):
>
> *** /usr/local/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-sh.el.~2.83~        2012-11-19    
> 15:28:37.224176017 +0100
> --- /usr/local/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-sh.el       2012-11-19    
> 15:22:28.279929308 +0100
> ***************
> *** 2010,2017 ****
>                ok-if-already-exists keep-date preserve-uid-gid))
>
>                ;; Try out-of-band operation.
> !              ((tramp-method-out-of-band-p
> !                 v1 (nth 7 (file-attributes (file-truename filename))))
>                 (tramp-do-copy-or-rename-file-out-of-band
>                   op filename newname keep-date))
>
> --- 2010,2020 ----
>                ok-if-already-exists keep-date preserve-uid-gid))
>
>                ;; Try out-of-band operation.
> !              ((and
> !                (tramp-method-out-of-band-p
> !                  v1 (nth 7 (file-attributes (file-truename filename))))
> !                (tramp-method-out-of-band-p
> !                  v2 (nth 7 (file-attributes (file-truename newname)))))
>                 (tramp-do-copy-or-rename-file-out-of-band
>                   op filename newname keep-date))
>
>
> Best regards, Michael.

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