Please describe the problem.
The version of git-annex available on OpenBSD is quite old. I've tried building a more recent version with cabal install git-annex, but this also failed. I guess these tools are also rather old. Unfortunately I have zero experience with Haskell and only mediocre OpenBSD skills. I'm hoping someone can pick this up and build a more up-to-date version.
- git-annex-8.20210223p1
- cabal-install-3.4.0.0p2
- ghc-8.10.6p0
Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
I've used it extensively during my time at university to keep track of materials and assignments. It ever let me down. Unfortunately I later lost the data due to multiple corrupted external disks and backup drives with LUKS where I didn't remember the password. Luckily I had no use for it anymore anyway. I'm hoping to use it again, this time in an effort to disconnect.
You will need to get in touch with the OpenBSD maintainers to get them to update the package. Nothing that filing a bug here can do about it.
Unless there is some problem with the git-annex code that is preventing them from building a newer version of course.
ghc 8.10 is not old at all, it's a commonly used version, and the version of cabal is also recent enough. git-annex should build with those versions.
This is not the place to file bug reports about a distribution of git-annex by eg OpenBSD or a Linux distribution being out of date. In the future, file the bug with the distributor, which is where the changes need to happen to update it.
The exception, of course, is if something about git-annex is preventing the distributor from upgrading it.