Bug 442724 – x11-misc/spacefm requires sys-fs/sshfs-fuse for remote file access

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description BHReach 2012-11-11 14:31:24 UTC]

Cannot access remote file systems using sftp or ssh without sys-fs/sshfs-fuse. Should be mentioned in the ebuild as an optional dependency.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-11-12 12:16:25 UTC]

What happens when you do try and it fails?

[Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2012-11-12 13:37:15 UTC]

support for ssh:// urls is only available via "udevil"

udevil shows an elog of optional dependencies including sshfs-fuse

[Comment 3 BHReach 2012-11-12 15:29:02 UTC]

Before sshfs-fuse was installed, trying to use ssh:// or sftp:// caused an error dialog to pop up. I can't remember what it said but it did not mention sshfs.

I looked through log files and discovered it was trying to run sshfs so I tried installing sshfs-fuse and it solved the problem.

I just uninstalled sshfs-fuse to see what happens and now when I try to use ssh:// or sftp:// a terminal opens with an error that says is cannot run sshfs. different behavior than before.

[Comment 4 Julian Ospald 2012-11-12 16:29:47 UTC]

in spacefm:
	elog "To support ftp/nfs/smb/ssh URLs in the path bar you need:"
	elog "  sys-apps/udevil"

in udevil:
	elog "  sys-fs/sshfs-fuse  (mounting sftp shares)"

[Comment 5 BHReach 2012-11-14 00:15:24 UTC]

Good job, very prompt, thank you.