How to set EXTENSION_GALLERY env variable when installing via brew

[vladfrangu]

Hey!

I'm trying to setup code-server on my laptop but I am unable to figure out how to set the EXTENSION_GALLERY env variable to make code-server use a different extension server (as open-vsx is currently down). From what I gathered, either setting it in a product.json or in the env variable should be enough (keyword being should). I tried adding it to my path before calling brew services restart code-server, I tried running brew services start code-server with the env variable, tried adding a product.json file in ~/.config/code-server and in ~/.local/share/code-server and ~/.local/share/code-server/Machine but that also did not work.

Any ideas what else I can do to set this up?
Thanks!

[jsjoeio]

I did some looking around and couldn't find anything about passing environment variables to brew services. I only found this: Homebrew/homebrew-services#104

I think you'd have to manually edit the file that brew uses when they start a session.

Or you might be able to add it to PATH and code-server should read it from there. Let me know if that works!

[vladfrangu]

Sweet! That totally worked! Only downside is that the server didn't log that it got a custom extension gallery configured 😓

Thanks a bunch!

[jsjoeio]

Darn it 😢 Not 100% sure if that's a bug or not (cc @code-asher) but happy it worked!

[code-asher]

I think we no longer log that there is a custom gallery set but we could add one at the debug level or something. (Or maybe info level would be better.)