FOSSology

From Iver Dihle Skjervum:

I have just downloaded 2.0 rc1, and would like to share my latest experiences.

It works to upload file now, but only as long as the unix-username is registered as a user in fossology since '--user' and '--passwd' doesn't work. An entry is created in the upload-table, but archives are not unpacked using a simple command like 'cp2foss archive.tar'. However, using '-q all' it unpacks the file, and runs at least the agent_nomos (I have not understood which agents that are involved in cp2foss yet).

Using -f doesn't seem to have any affect on the upload, besides that the folder is created, but the upload is placed in Software Repository anyway.

fixed in svn 5838.

also please refer to #777.

so sorry, you have to add .fossology.rc in your home dir,or when you run cp2foss, add --user user-name before the file name, for example:
cp2foss --user USER --password PASSWORD -f Folder1 -d 'the first file' /tmp/file1

a new fix in svn 5844.

tested on 5844
cp2foss -Q --user bobg --password badpass
still succeeds when it should fail (note that ~/.bobg/.fossology.rc) does contain the correct user/pass.

Bob Gobeille wrote:

tested with svn 5851
cp2foss fails to recognize ~/.fossology.rc

$ cp2foss -a
The user is: bobg, please enter the password:

I do not very capture you test case.
for cp2foss and fossjobs, if there are no ~/.fossology.rc and you do not add the --user USER argument, will add the current user as the default, then let you enter the password.
so I think for your test case, there is no ~/.fossology.rc, the current user is bobg,right?

My test case is:
1) create ~/.fossology.rc
with two lines. Line 1 is the username, line 2 is my password. For example,
cat /home/bobg/.fossology.rc
myusername
mypassword

2) then run cp2foss -a
The user and password should be picked up from ~/.fossology.rc

3) run cp2foss -a --user myusername --password badpassword
This should give an error because the bad password on the command line overrides the password in ~/.fossology.rc

Also, I don't know why you default the user name to the system username. System usernames have nothing to do with fossology usernames.

Have test with new check in, works fine, my test case is:
1) create ~/.fossology.rc
with two lines. Line 1 is the user=username, line 2 is my password=password. For example,
cat /home/madong/.fossology.rc
user=myusername
password=mypassword

2) then run cp2foss -Q
The user and password picked up from ~/.fossology.rc and run cp2foss -Q

3) run cp2foss -Q --user myusername --password badpassword
User name or password is invalid.

4) run cp2foss -Q without setup ~/.fossology.rc
FATAL: You should add '--user USERNAME' when running OR add 'user=USERNAME' in ~/.fossology.rc before running.