port request: 'git-annex'

[KurtPfeifle (Kurt Pfeifle)]

'git-annex' can manage files with Git, but without needing them to be checked into Git. Recent versions of git-annex come with an ​assistant which makes it very easy to create and manage synchronised folders (with identical contents everywhere) on each of one's Mac, Linux or Android computers or cloud services used.

Upstream sources are here: ​http://git-annex.branchable.com/

(For those unfamiliar with git-annex, it's worth while to watch this introduction screencast: ​https://downloads.kitenet.net/videos/git-annex/git-annex-assistant-intro.ogv )

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

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[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

It has a lot of dependencies for building from source: ​http://git-annex.branchable.com/install/fromscratch/

Haskell stuff:

Dependency	Status in MacPorts
​The Haskell Platform (GHC 7.4 or newer)	Our ghc port​ is at version 7.6.3
​mtl (2.1.1 or newer)	Our hs-mtl port​ (a subport of the haskell-platform) is at version 2.1.2
​MissingH	we have a missingh port​ (now known as hs-missingh​)
​utf8-string	we have a port for hs-utf8-string​
​SHA	we have a port for hs-sha
​cryptohash (optional but recommended)	we have ports for hs-crypto​ and hs-crypto-api​, but no hs-cryptohash port. A port for hs-cryptohash​ was added in r114513
​dataenc	we have port for hs-dataenc​
​monad-control	we have a port for hs-monads-fd​ (which is obsolete), but no hs-monad-control port. A port for hs-monad-control​ was added in r114498
​QuickCheck 2	we have a port for hs-quickcheck​ (a subport of the haskell-platform), which is at version 2.6...
​json	we have a port for hs-json​
​aeson	nothing close to it A port for hs-aeson​ was added in r114505
​IfElse	nothing close A port for hs-ifelse​ was added in r114514
​dlist	we have a port for hs-dlist​
​bloomfilter	nothing close A port for hs-bloomfilter​ was added in r114516
​edit-distance	nothing close A port for hs-edit-distance​ was added in r114517
​hS3 (optional)	nothing close A port for hs-hs3​ was added in r114519
​DAV (optional)	nothing close
​SafeSemaphore	nothing close
​UUID	we have a port for ossp-uuid​, but not for the haskell bindings to it...
​regex-tdfa	we have a port for hs-regex-tdfa​
​extensible-exceptions	we have a port for hs-extensible-exceptions​
​feed	nothing close
​async	we have a port for hs-async​ (which is a subport of the haskell-platform)

Optional haskell stuff, used by the assistant and its webapp

Dependency	Status in MacPorts
​stm (version 2.3 or newer)	Our hs-stm port​ (a subport of the haskell-platform) is version 2.4.2
​hinotify (Linux only)	N/A
​dbus	we have a dbus port​, but not one for haskell bindings to it
​yesod	nothing close
​yesod-static	nothing close
​yesod-default	nothing close
​data-default	we have a port for hs-data-default​
​case-insensitive	we have a port for hs-case-insensitive​ (as a subport for the haskell-platform)
​http-types	we have a port for just hs-http​ (as part of the haskell-platform), but not for hs-http-types
​wai	nothing close
​wai-logger	nothing close
​warp	no haskell ports are close
​blaze-builder	we have a port for hs-blaze-builder​
​crypto-api	I mentioned above that we have a port for hs-crypto-api​
​hamlet	nothing close
​clientsession	nothing close
​network-multicast	we have a port for just hs-network​ (subport of haskell-platform), but not hs-network-multicast
​network-info	we have a port for just hs-network​ (subport of haskell-platform), but not hs-network-info
​network-protocol-xmpp	we have a port for just hs-network​ (subport of haskell-platform), but not hs-network-protocol-xmpp
​dns	no haskell ports are close
​xml-types	we have a port for just hs-xml​, but not hs-xml-types
​HTTP	as above, we have a port for hs-http​ as a subport of the haskell-platform
​unix-compat	nothing close
​MonadCatchIO-transformers	nothing close

Shell commands

​git	git comes with Xcode as of Xcode 4; we also have a port for git called "git-core​"
​xargs	part of OS X; MacPorts provides a gxargs as part of its findutils port​, which has a symlink to its un-g-prefixed name in /opt/local/libexec/gnubin
​rsync	part of OS X; MacPorts also has a port for rsync
​curl (optional, but recommended)	part of OS X; MacPorts also has a port for curl​
​wget (optional)	Removed from OS X as of 10.1 Puma; MacPorts has a port for wget​
​sha1sum (optional, but recommended; a sha1 command will also do)	MacPorts's sha1sum command is provided by the md5sha1sum port​.
​gpg (optional; needed for encryption)	MacPorts has a gnupg port​
​lsof (optional; recommended for watch mode)	part of OS X; MacPorts does not provide its own version
​gcrypt (optional)	MacPorts has a libgcrypt port​ and perl bindings to it​... it is not the exact thing linked to here, though...
multicast DNS support, provided on linux by ​nss-mdns (optional; recommended for the assistant to support pairing well)	OS X has bonjour built-in for multicast dns support. I forked ​nss-mdns with the intention of bringing it to MacPorts, but failed to get it to build for OS X, and as such, I have not been able to write a Portfile for it yet... MacPorts does have a port for mdnsd​, though, which is another software package that provides multicast DNS support (I also have ​my own fork of the mdnsd Portfile).
​ikiwiki (optional; used to build the docs)	we have a port for ikiwiki​

I suppose we could just have MacPorts download the pre-built app bundle (if adding ports for all of these haskell dependencies is too much of an issue): ​http://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/OSX/current/

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

OK, I should be done updating my table in the previous post now... you should probably also consider cc-ing cal on this, seeing as he is the maintainer for most of the Haskell ports...

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Adding haskell ports is rather easy. You'd start by copying one of the haskell portfiles, e.g. hs-utf8-string, modifying the haskell.setup line, removing the revision, if any and generating the correct checksums using port -v checksum.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to cal@…:

Adding haskell ports is rather easy. You'd start by copying one of the haskell portfiles, e.g. hs-utf8-string, modifying the haskell.setup line, removing the revision, if any and generating the correct checksums using port -v checksum.

Yeah, but I wouldn't be able to test them properly... my installed haskell ports are kind of broken...

[ci42]

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[ci42]

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[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

updated the table in comment:2 to reflect the new haskell ports that cal has added as part of the recent pandoc update (i.e. r114495 through r114509, and of the revisions between those, more specifically r114498 and r114505 were applicable)

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

hs-cryptohash in r114513.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

hs-ifelse in r114514.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

hs-bloomfilter in r114516.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

hs-edit-distance in r114517.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

hs-hs3 in r114519 (and its missing dependencies in r114518).

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

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[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

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[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

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[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

I'm attaching a minimal Portfile; it may be missing some dependencies. Note that I am stuck on building hs-missingh; see #47384.

[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

new Portfile

[grosshei@…]

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[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

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[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to aronnax@…:

I'm attaching a minimal Portfile; it may be missing some dependencies. Note that I am stuck on building hs-missingh; see #47384.

It looks like you fixed hs-missingh by updating it to a newer version. Is there anything else blocking git-annex from being committed?

[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

Yes, lots. I started descending down the tree of dependencies and manually updating or adding ports as needed. My local ports repo has the following updated/new ports in it:

hs-asn1-encoding
hs-asn1-parse
hs-asn1-types
hs-bloomfilter
hs-cipher-des
hs-clock
hs-connection
hs-crypto-cipher-types
hs-crypto-pubkey
hs-crypto-pubkey-types
hs-esqueleto
hs-git-annex
hs-hourglass
hs-http-client
hs-http-client-conduit
hs-http-client-tls
hs-http-conduit
hs-mime-types
hs-network-info
hs-streaming-commons
hs-tls
hs-tls-extra
hs-unix
hs-unix-compat
hs-uuid
hs-uuid-types
hs-x509
hs-x509-store
hs-x509-system
hs-x509-validation

and there are still some missing. Is there a script for scraping the Haskell web site to generate these ports?

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Replying to aronnax@…:

... Is there a script for scraping the Haskell web site to generate these ports?

Not that I'm aware of, however, there is a ​MacPorts GSoC 2015 "Generating Portfiles" project that aims to create one.

[samuel@…]

+1 would like this.

[samuel@…]

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[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

This isn't happening until we've automated creating Haskell ports from cabal. I've seen other projects do it, so it's basically a matter of writing a few day's worth of Haskell. It's on my todo list, but pretty far at the bottom. Help would be welcome.

[dgsb (David Bariod)]

Replying to neverpanic:

This isn't happening until we've automated creating Haskell ports from cabal. I've seen other projects do it, so it's basically a matter of writing a few day's worth of Haskell. It's on my todo list, but pretty far at the bottom. Help would be welcome.

Hi Clemens,

I'm pretty illiterate in haskell ecosystem, is there any other way we can help to make this topic pop up on your todo ?

Best, David

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Replying to dgsb:

I'm pretty illiterate in haskell ecosystem,

So am I, so writing a tool that does the job also involves learning quite a bit more of Haskell than I currently know.

is there any other way we can help to make this topic pop up on your todo?

I'm afraid not.

[avdyk (Arnaud Vandyck)]

I've just discover this tool and use it on my Debian@work. I'd like to use it on my MacBook too ;-)

Is there still a lot of job to do to get git-annex in Mac Ports?

Cheers,

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

In 0189eb624f02b0d84184cb4fc1c5980b151edbd5/macports-ports (master):

git-annex: new port

Closes: #41466