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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_187__porting_utilities.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_187__porting_utilities.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..496c74a1f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_187__porting_utilities.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Ported all the utilities git-annex needs to run on Android: +git, rsync, gnupg, dropbear (ssh client), busybox. Built a +Makefile that can download, patch, and cross build these from source. + +While all the utilities work, dropbear doesn't allow git-annex to use ssh +connection caching, which is rather annoying especially since these systems +tend to be rather slow and take a while to start up ssh connections. +I'd sort of like to try to get openssh's client working on Android instead. +Don't know how realistic that is. + +Dealt with several parts of git-annex that assumed `/bin/sh` exists, +so it instead uses `/system/bin/sh` on Android. Also adapted `runshell` +for Android. + +Now I have a 8 mb compressed tarball for Android. +Uncompressed it's 25 mb. This includes a lot of git and busybox +commands that won't be used, so it could be trimmed down further. +16 mb of it is git-annex itself. + +[[Instructions for using the Android tarball|install/Android]] +This is for users who are rather brave, not afraid of command line and +keyboard usage. Good first step. |