[Nix-dev] git-annex assistant

[Florian Friesdorf]

Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gmane.linux.distributions.nixos as well.
>
> Hi Florian,
>
>  > I see you packaged git-annex and it's configure without assistent
>  > and/or webapp.
>
> right, I disabled the web-related parts of the build a while after Yesod
> 1.2 came out. I wanted that update because other packages (like hledger)
> stopped working with Yesod 1.1, and packaging both Yesod 1.1 and 1.2 is
> way too much effort. So I gave up git-annex assistant in order to go
> forward.
>
>  > Any idea what to do?
>
> I believe the only thing one can do is to e-mail Joey Hess and politely
> ask him to update git-annex to Yesod 1.2. I've tried that, but it seems
> like he hasn't had time to work on the issue so far.

It looks like he meanwhile supports building with yesod-1.2 (b44c978).

I know nothing about our haskell packaging. Could we easily include a
git version of git-annex to help him debugging it further with
yesod-1.2? At least for me that would make things easier than working
with a manual checkout and setup.

regards
florian
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