Fwd: keychain 2.7.1 and fish-2.1.1-3 incompatibility

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Wed Oct 22 16:09:00 GMT 2014


> The current Cygwin version of keychain (2.7.1) apparently requires a
> patch to use alongside newer versions of the FISH shell.
> 
> This was already fixed upstream:
> 
> https://github.com/funtoo/keychain/commit/b73fc50ba27fb5f62864ee097f9d118ac6e0fba6
> 
> This patch was included in the keychain 2.7.2_beta1 version available
> on their mirrors.  I've been using this patched version on Cygwin and
> it works.

FWIW, I didn't know this was being worked on upstream.  I just worked
around it by running

    if not ssh-add -l >&-
        set SSH_AUTH_SOCK
        set SSH_AGENT_PID
        keychain --eval $keys | source
    end

Until a new keychain comes out, the above should serve as a workaround.


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