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diff --git a/doc/bugs/.mdwn b/doc/bugs/.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..58ae5d970 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +A default cabal install on OS X in a sandbox of git-annex 6.20160511 will result in no S3 support, as reported to Homebrew in the following two issues: +https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/1268 +https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/47737 + +The underlying cause is that aws-0.13.0 lacks commit https://github.com/aristidb/aws/commit/402bfe5aa9ef4bec84186880faafcbfdae1ad91d, which allows data-default 0.6. + +I attempted to mitigate the issue using --flags="s3", but that does not seem to help (nor does it force the build to fail): still no s3 support. I'd expect that either to constrain data-default to 0.5.3 and produce a build with s3 support, or fail the build, but for some reason it doesn't. Is this not working because we're in a sandbox or some other reason? + +Currently, I'm planning to just patch aws with https://github.com/aristidb/aws/commit/402bfe5aa9ef4bec84186880faafcbfdae1ad91d rather than resorting to a fixed configuration (e.g., lts-5.5 or whatever), as you can see here: +https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/1307 + +It would be great if git-annex could work around the issue itself, though. + +Meanwhile, I have also pinged aws to request a 0.13.1 release, which would solve the problem "the right way": +https://github.com/aristidb/aws/issues/202 |