From b9d5cd77162390a6ab167666b08f02f0b1f8d2dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Rawlinson Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:00:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] specify git version Older git for windows MinGW didn't support updating the plain text files in keyfiles/live/blackbox-admins.txt and blackbox-files.txt due to an error `cannot make pipe for process substitution function not supported` The newer version of Git (which is also more secure) also resolves this issue. --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6b38766..60de9e3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Blackbox automatically determines which VCS you are using and does the right thi - CentOS / RedHat - MacOS X - Cygwin (Thanks, Ben Drasin!) - - MinGW (git bash on windows) + - MinGW (git bash on windows) **See Note Below** To add or fix support for a VCS system, look for code at the end of `bin/_blackbox_common.sh` @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ Note: MinGW (comes with Git for Windows) support requires the following addition - Normal operation: - [Git for Windows](https://git-scm.com/) (not tested with Mercurial) - Git Bash MINTTY returns a MinGW console. So when you install make sure you pick `MINTTY` instead of windows console. You'll be executing blackbox from the Git Bash prompt. + - You need at least version 2.8.1 of Git for Windows. - [Gpg4Win](https://www.gpg4win.org/) with the path add to your PATH (ex: `PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG`) - [GnuWin32](https://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/files/) - needed for various tools not least of which is mktemp which is used by blackbox - after downloading the install just provides you with some batch files. Because of prior issues at sourceforge and to make sure you get the latest version of each package the batch files handle the brunt of the work of getting the correct packages and installing them for you. @@ -133,7 +134,6 @@ Note: MinGW (comes with Git for Windows) support requires the following addition - Development: - unknown - How is the encryption done? ===========================