[Bug 662259] Review Request: git-annex - Manage files with git, without checking their contents in

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662259

Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net> changed:

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Bug 662259 depends on bug 784802, which changed state.

Bug 784802 Summary: Review Request: ghc-lifted-base - Lifted IO operations from the base library
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784802

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
             Status|ASSIGNED                    |MODIFIED
             Status|MODIFIED                    |ON_QA
         Resolution|                            |ERRATA
             Status|ON_QA                       |CLOSED

--- Comment #14 from Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net> 2012-04-13 12:38:39 EDT ---
Hi, I'm the author of git-annex, and appreciate your work on getting it into
Fedora, since based on user feedback, this is currently one of the harder Linux
distributions for users to install it to.

I'd really like to make this happen. It seems that the main issue is build
dependencies. But there are some ways to work around that. git-annex's git
repository has several branches that avoid most of the newer build
dependencies. For building with ghc older than 7.4, there is the ghc-7.0
branch. For building without S3 (and its long chain of dependencies noted
above), there is a no-s3 branch. It's also possible to avoid monad-control
(which also avoids lifted-base), although currently the only branch I have that
does do is the debian-stable branch. There's also a no-bloom branch omitting
another recent build dependency. These all remove some features (and dropping
monal-control removes some robustness in one case), but still leave a quite
capable program.

I would be quite willing to put together a branch that omits any build
dependencies necessary for Fedora, and maintain it for the lifetime of the
Fedora release. (Not sure if I can commit to the lifetime of a Red Hat release
:)
Just get in touch with me.

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